Just when I thought everything that could go wrong with a G tube had happened to me over the last two years, something new happened.
The tip of my extension tube broke off inside my main G tube when I was changing it. I wondered why I could not get the new extension to fit snugly yet the G tube did not seem clogged and let a syringe put directly into it empty out. So I squinted and saw a little orange glow down in the top of the G tube.
I dug out the old extension tube from the trash, and yep, the tip was broken off by 1/16th of an inch. Luckily I had some dental tools from my mosaic projects and with a little luck was finally able to put a pick down the tube and poke it just enough to snag the orange fragment yet not puncture the tube and pull it out.
I'm getting quite good at DIY with the tube (regular readers remember when my tube fell out last month and I put it back in myself rather than sit in the emergency room on a Saturday night). Maybe I should contact PBS about a "This Old Tube"
show
Charm