Feeding Tube

Proverbs 16:31 “The hoary head (gray hair) is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.”

My mother is 91 years old and has a feeding tube. If you have a loved one on a feeding tube, I am sure you know how to take care of it. There were just a lot of things I had to learn as we went along and the nurse who came out helped us a lot. Feel free to ask me any questions and I will try to answer them or find someone who can. I wish I had someone to be able to ask questions of. When I first got my mother home from the hospital I just did not know if I was going to be able to do it or not. I just had to keep telling myself that with God’s help I can do all things. To me this was a big one, now to some people it may not seem that bad but for me to see my mother like this was hard and to have to feed her this way was really hard. I was also concerned I would do something wrong and hurt her. My daughter was better at it than I was at first. My mother has to sit up in the bed one hour after feeding so it will not go into her lungs. We use a little coke to clean the tubing from time to time.