Rice Krispies!

Big news on the eating front for Sammy! He ate a bowl of Rice Krispies yesterday and six bites of pudding! Praise the Lord for baby steps! Sam had a very difficult night last night with his g-tube feedings though! He was awake the majority of the night screaming and crying. We have tried four different formulas with him the past few weeks and can't seem to find the right combination of formula and duration of time for his feedings. It was decided that he would have a gastric emptying study done to check out if his stomach is emptying his food at the right speed. This test consisted of giving him formula with radiation mixed in through his g-tube. Next, x-rays are taken every fifteen minutes for two hours. Tomorrow morning, Sam will have another upper GI test and a small bowel follow through to look at how his food is moving through the GI tract. This test will have lots of x-rays involved too. Once Sam is tolerating his formula at full strength, we will be transferred to Children's Care for a few weeks. We need to have help caring for him during the time that his g-tube is vented. It takes two people to move him and we have to monitor the tube carefully to be sure that it is not pulled out of his tummy.


One picture shows his vented tube and the other is a picture of snowman Sam all wrapped up during his x-rays!