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Day 892 - G-tube Success, Photoshoot, & Climbing McGee!

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Sunday, June 4th, 2023 - Saturday, June 10th, 2023 🐟 On family day we took James to the Florida Aquarium. It is free on the first Sunday of the month for Bank of America members. We only recommend going if you can go for free. The plan was to get photos of James with his "Big Brother" t-shirt on but we just couldn't get a good one where you could read the shirt. 👏🏻 Monday morning we started feeding James in his stomach (G-tube) but connected to a Farrell bag. So the feeding tube was connected at the Y-port. It's important to prime the Farrell bag first and then the extension. As well as hang the Farrell bag higher than the feeding pump and keep the Y-port below or at stomach level. What's does that mean? It just isn't easy to have James move around with so many restrictions. Sometimes it required Mom to use the 3-tiered Ikea cart to hang the Farrell bag from the IV pole. Glad we didn't break it down yet. James did great though! There wasn't a whole ...