Day 671 - Transfer Day, GJ Popped, & ER Visit!
Tuesday, November 1st, 2022
Today was the craziest day ever! In the morning Mom had her embryo transfer and by the evening we were in the ER with James.
Dad and James waited in the car while Mom had her procedure. They wouldn't allow patients to take and Uber home because of the sedation. Everything went as expected and we got our first photo of the embryo. [Below]
After the transfer we went out for a late breakfast and took James inside the Village Inn without his ventilator on during his 1 hour break. James did so good! It's such a huge deal!
Around 7pm Mom was doing some of James' nightly care when she noticed his GJ button was sticking too far out. The balloon was deflated and had popped out through the stoma. Mom screamed for Dad and alerted him we needed to go to he hospital. Mom ended up pushing the button back in James and taped it down with gauze and medical tape. We called the GI Doctor's office to see if we should wait to come in tomorrow. Mom spoke to the on-call nurse practitioner who directed us to go to the ER because James could not go without fluids overnight. At the moment only his G-tube was connected.
We went to the ER and the lobby was packed full of people hacking up a lung. 😷 However THIS both parents were allowed to come back to the room. The ER doctor was very adamant about us not staying saying, "you don't want to be here". The schedule James for Radiology to make sure that the J tube was in his intestine and had not come up to the stomach. We already knew this to be true since the button only came out maybe 1 inch and was pushed back down. But we are still required to go to radiology where they push through 60mls of contrast through his G and J extensions. Mind you, he did not have his J extension when we went down to radiology; no one bothered to check that because typically the majority of medical staff we've had to deal with has always been pretty incompetent.. And as always the technician not understanding how to clamp and unclamp an extension so that it doesn't like all over the bed. Mom was required to stay behind the glass and a separate room because she had to act as if she was pregnant.
The results from Radiology came back that everything was in the correct spot. I don't think we ever saw a nurse. The doctor had come in again telling us that since everything was in the right spot and his button was taped down that we could be discharged. The ER doctor said she spoke to the on-call GI doctor Dr. Beltroy, who is in the same group, and he said that we could call his office in the morning so that they could schedule us with interventional radiology. So after several hours of being in the ER we were being sent home with absolutely no fix, with the promise of this getting fixed outpatient. But we should have never been discharged.....
Crazy to think that the morning started out with an embryo transfer with directions for Mom to have a rather low stress day.
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| Preregistration (going over the same information over and over) |
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| Waiting back in the lobby for a room to open up |
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| Going to Radiology with no J-tube extension. 🤦🏻♀️ |
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