More into Nolan's cancer story. After months of Nolan vomiting the nasal feeding tube and having to make dozens of trips to Atlanta to have another one shoved down his nose. Doctors, nurses and I all decided it was time for something more permanent. Nolan had a GJ tube surgery on May 19, 2010. Nolan would have surgery and two days later get 3 doses of chemo :( We had to do it this way because his counts were the highest at this time and he would have at least 7 days to recover before they started dropping again.
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First picture "tubeless" I love seeing him smile :) You can see where the tape was causing his skin to break down. It was terrible!
Nolan showing off his new tube. Nolan's first tube was called a peg tube and is used during the healing process. He had small tube that was run through the g-tube that would bypass his stomach and go right to his intestines(J tube). We "thought" Nolan wouldn't be able to throw this tube up. Not likely. Nolan still continued throwing the tube up every week. There was one particular time that he threw the tube up and it came up through his stomach and was hanging out of his mouth. I drove all the way to Atlanta with Nolan choking and gagging in the backseat. The ER doctor had never seen anything like it. The vomiting was just so bad. Nothing seemed to help. Nolan kept the peg tube for about 12 weeks before switching to his mickey button. Nolan to this day still has his mickey g-tube. NO MORE J TUBES!!! YAY!!!
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| This is Nolan's mickey tube and what he currently has. We love how low profile it is. No one would ever know. |
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