{"id":12,"date":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotafordash\/2020\/09\/17\/g-tube-dependent\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T00:00:00","slug":"g-tube-dependent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/2020\/09\/17\/g-tube-dependent\/","title":{"rendered":"G tube Dependent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3136.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><span class=\"\">We were told by our renal dietitian that it was unlikely I would be able to meet my fluid goal orally, and that it&rsquo;d be easier to get a G-tube placed instead of continuing with the NG tube. My mom and dad were hesitant at first. They believed I didn&rsquo;t need a G-tube. But I then developed oral aversion. Being premature and being in the NICU, with ET tubes, OG tubes, Anderson tubes, and every other tube being shoved in my mouth, and a combination of my CKD; I developed oral aversion. Or as one of the speech therapists described it, it&rsquo;s like PTSD with eating. She explained, imagine you&rsquo;re sick to your stomach and the last thing in the world you want to do is eat. Then someone shoves a squid or something equally as disgusting in your face and is trying to force you to eat it. That&rsquo;s how it feels all the time with oral aversion. I eventually wouldn&rsquo;t take anything by mouth. All of my feeds were placed in my NG tube. That&rsquo;s when my parents decided it was best to have the surgery and get the G-tube. The G-tube was the best decision, and my parents wished they would have had it placed much sooner!<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"                    Igw0E     IwRSH      eGOV_         _4EzTm   pjcA_                                                         aGBdT                                                  \"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3128.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3129.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3131.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3132.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3133.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3134.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2178\/images\/IMG_3135.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were told by our renal dietitian that it was unlikely I would be able to meet my fluid goal orally, and that it&rsquo;d be easier to get a G-tube placed instead of continuing with the NG tube. My mom and dad were hesitant at first. They believed I didn&rsquo;t need a G-tube. But I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotafordash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}