Digdoug
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First the good news. Brian can now eat soft foods...praise the Lord!!! He can't eat chips or toast or anything with a hard texture. His first food was a soft taco and man...that smile was worth a million words. I have pics but am a little under the weather so will post some later. The doctor did say that the risk for bleeding is still there and that until the tumors quite growing bleeding will be a concern. Brian is afraid to eat because he worries about the bleeding so we will start him with just small amounts of food like mashed potatoes and gravy, apple sauce, etc.
We also had the mic-key button put in to replace the long feeding tube. It was a heart wrenching experience because Carol, a nurse and I had to physically hold him down so the doctor could replace it. To have your son yell that he hates you for putting him through this really breaks your heart. Afterwords, Brian apologised but we told him it wasn't necessary because we did understand his fear and the supposed pain involved. The beauty of the button is he doesn't have a foot long hose dangling from his stomach that he has to tape to his chest for fear of accidentally pulling it out. Now, a plastic tube is inserted in the button that opens a valve for feeding.
Now for the weather forecast: 1 to 3 inches of snow may fall overnight and through the early morning hours. A real hillbilly blizzard!! Milk and bread is disappearing off the shelves and schools are closing, well those that weren't already closed because of the flooding down here. We set a record for rainfall yesterday when over 3 inches of rain fell.
Thanks for all of your prayers!!
God Bless!
We also had the mic-key button put in to replace the long feeding tube. It was a heart wrenching experience because Carol, a nurse and I had to physically hold him down so the doctor could replace it. To have your son yell that he hates you for putting him through this really breaks your heart. Afterwords, Brian apologised but we told him it wasn't necessary because we did understand his fear and the supposed pain involved. The beauty of the button is he doesn't have a foot long hose dangling from his stomach that he has to tape to his chest for fear of accidentally pulling it out. Now, a plastic tube is inserted in the button that opens a valve for feeding.
Now for the weather forecast: 1 to 3 inches of snow may fall overnight and through the early morning hours. A real hillbilly blizzard!! Milk and bread is disappearing off the shelves and schools are closing, well those that weren't already closed because of the flooding down here. We set a record for rainfall yesterday when over 3 inches of rain fell.
Thanks for all of your prayers!!
God Bless!
God Bless! Sister Betty
