Hi CB,

What conference will you be speaking to? Patient education in my opinion is the most important item to give a new tubefeeder. Especially a list of support forums like this. I had my g-tube placed at Mayo Clinic Rochester and they had a nurse give me thorough instructions on the care and maintenance of the tube. However they did not give me much guidance on which formula to use or that real food was an option. I researched on my own till I found one called Compleat which I believe is the only canned formula made with real food (chicken, cranberry juice, carrots and peas). I also experimented on my own creating fresh food recipes. It sure would have been nice to have a resource at the time. I laugh about it now but for almost a year I used a regular blender and then put it through a strainer until a friend told me about the Vitamix. I've used it ever since.

Blessings,

Jesse