Hi there,
I'm hoping someone can help out here. I brought my mom-in-law home from the hospital friday after her g-tube procedure. She is just supposed to be here a few days until she gets the hang of her feeding pump and giving her own meds. This morning when I went to give her meds she had green bile coming out of her g-tube. I decided to wait for the home care nurse and she thought it was "probably" normal however she didn't exude confidence!! Anyone else had this issue?
I don't know if this is going to work out or not, she really wants to go home but it is a lot for her to learn, she has oxygen as well now, but the main concern is her meds. She doesn't seem to know when to take them. I fill little syringes for her at night with morphine, small doses for breakthrough pain and larger ones for her 4 hourly doses, I have everything colour-coded to make it easier but she still takes the wrong ones or when I got up this morning there was morphine all over the floor, so I don't think she got much of that one. She didn't want to do anything for herself today, she was supposed to show the nurse if she could set up her own feeding but she didn't want to. I don't have a problem doing it for her but she soooo wants to go home I'm not sure what to do. Thanks for letting me vent guys.
Karen