uggghhhhh!!!

[Rayne]

Originally Posted by Phalanx

Not to offend, but I guess they might've thought you'd have covered the feeding him part y'self?

Yeah, I was there the whole time, Dustin was there whenever he wasn't at work

What happened was, the baby was on stuff to stop the seizures, and it pretty much knocked him out...They said they would put in a feeding tube in case he couldn't take a bottle when he came out of it, because after that many hours he would need to eat right away...I told them NOT to give him a feeding tube, because I was confident that he would be able to take a bottle...So, while Dustin was at work, and I had left the room to call my mother and let her know about the spinal tap and everything, they did it anyway...When I came back in (like 15 minutes later), he had the feeding tube in and I asked them if they even TRIED to give him a bottle first...They said that they wanted it in "just in case", but I could try a bottle in a few minutes and then if he couldn't drink it, they would use the tube...I was pretty pissed off...Especially when they told me that he fought and ripped the damned thing out THREE times, before they ended up taping the whole side of his face to keep it in (all within about 15 minutes...Looks to me like they were just WAITING until I was out of the room, and did it as quick as they could so I couldn't object...As we had already had an 'issue' over the spinal tap, which ALSO turned out to be unnecessary)...

Seems to me if he was capable of fighting them, he would have no problem drinking a damned bottle...And when I had come back, he was asleep, so they must have worn him out...I held him as I removed the feeding tube, peeling off the tape very slowly and carefully without waking him up, so he wouldn't have to deal with it when he DID wake up (he had already been through ENOUGH bullshit)...and a few minutes later, when he woke up, I gave him a bottle...He drank it with absolutely no problem as I knew he would

I understand precaution...But for the sake of 'covering the bases' (protecting their asses), they CAN go too far......It's like boarding up your windows "IN CASE" there's a monsoon, when you live 50,000 miles inland

It was just a very bad time...They nearly kicked me out...I was protecting my baby...They were pissing me off


[email protected] know EXACTLY what it's like...and I feel for you very much

I hope that all is well now :)