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...until Mary Elizabeth gets her gtube taken out!!!!!

We go to Westchester bright and EARLY Friday morning, August 21st for her gtube removal!

On August 11th we went to her Dr. who handles her gtube and whatnot- and he reviewed the paperwork which said that she is OK to get her gtube out. He discussed with us that he would much prefer to remove it without doing it surgically and stitching it. He said 75% of patients with gtubes have the hole close and it heals on it’s own. We are praying she is one of them.

What he is going to do is take the tube out and cauterize the area as to help it to heal and close correctly. Then he will place a dressing over the area to help with leaking issues. This is a major dressing which will stretch over the belly and we should not let it be emerged in water as to help keep it on. So baths will have to be sponge baths with some hair washing in the sink or something like that for about 2 weeks. As for pools, she doesn’t go in deep ones anyway because of the trach and she has been loving sprinklers anyway which the Dr said is just fine.
The dr will also give us extra dressings in case it should come off or we need to cover it longer than 2 weeks. The leaking should subside as the hole closes, which again we are praying it does entirely on it’s own.

Keep her in your thoughts and prayers and join us in the joy of putting the feeding tube in our past!!!!
We will keep you posted as always 🙂