Coburn Kids

First off, I have no idea what happened to my blog!  All my categories are gone, my blog roll, ability to do pics through the WYSIWIG and miscellaneous other things.  Odd.

Well Sunday night we got to spend 5 hours in Chicago’s Children’s Memorial Hospital ER department.  At about 6:00 PM Adessa pronounced at the top of her lungs that Caden had pulled his feeding tube out. She did all the investigative work herself though. She saw some drips on the floor, made Caden lie down on his back and pulled up his shirt. Just as she suspected… no tube. She then went frantically through the house searching for the mic-key button and when she found it let all of us know. Which makes me chuckle thinking of my 4 year old taking all that on herself.

We tried desperately for a bit to get the button back in.  We were not gentle, Caden didn’t cry but I know that ER’s take hours upon hours so we were a bit determined to no avail.  We then tried just getting in a Foley catheter to hold the hole open, didn’t work either.  As way of an anatomy lesson, your stomach regenerates it’s lining very very quickly.  Some kid’s feeding tube holes can close up nearly completely in just a 1/2 hour so time is of the essence. Since nothing worked we called up Grandma Coburn to come and watch the girls and off Daniel and I went to the ER. It should be noted though that we were smart and made some phone calls first to other ER departments that were closer.  Apparently, a size French 14 at 1.7 cm long mic-key button is not something most ER’s will have so it was a good thing we did call.

So here’s some pics from about 10:30 PM last night.  Caden was extremely good the entire time, just a bit fussy considering it was so far past his bedtime and he didn’t get a chance to eat.