It's crazy. Vera's nose has been flowing with mucus for 13 days now. Sometimes it's green and thick, sometimes thin and stringy. Whatever it is, stuffs her up, cakes up and makes her nostril opening smaller, blocks her airway and causes bouts of gagging when she sleeps, and has to be turned left-right-left through the night. She hates us dabbing it away.
I had a hunch that having the tube through her nose was aggravating the situation, so we switched it to the other nostril. Voila! The former nostril stopped dripping! (at least for now) I'm getting real tired of this tube...
But having recently seen the amount of maintenance and cost that goes into g-tube feeding...cleaning the tubes and sterilising all the apparatus parts after every feed, have also made me think twice. Maybe we'll let Vera decide. The day she can dexteriously pull out the tube, we'll get the message.
Meanwhile, please give Vera a break Mr Mucus. It's Christmas, go on holiday.
2 comments:
Mr. Mucous please leave Vera alone. I am sorry she is going through this. I knew without a post you were busy or she wasn't doing so well. You are right about everything being stopped up. Their passage ways are so tiny that anything esp. Mr. Mucous will do it. I am praying for her to be better soon.
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