A Futile Trip

Went shopping for some clothes for Jon and so I arrived on the late side again today. The nurse told me that Jon's feeding tube was clogged, again, only this time they didn't seem to be able to get it unclogged. Clogging has been a problem for the last couple of months. They had decided that this time they would send Jon to the hospital to have the tube replaced. I kept bugging her about when would he be leaving and got some answer about being unarble to reach the doctor or not having time, or whatever. Finally about 5:30--just before supper--she announced the ambulance would be there at 6. He ate a medium breakfast, next to nothing for lunch and now no supper! Not so sure how much difference it would have made but still.

On the way over the ambulance driver commented about the time difference between OSU and St. Anne's emergency room visits. OSU: average time from start to finish 6 hours; St Anne's: 3 hours. Because they had trouble getting ahold of the place he's staying they couldn't call the ambulance to send him back??? Anyway it was after 10 before arriving "home" and around 11 before he was settled in and ran out of requests.

To make a long story short there are two different kinds of installations for PEGs and we didn't know which it was. An ultra sound around his tummy was no help at all. After much rummaging for a tube that might fit it was decided that since they didn't know for sure just which kind of attachment they were making that maybe it would be best to see a gastroentestinal doc and start from scratch.