When Jen got in this morning, she heard there was a problem with the feed bag bursting, so they were replacing it. A little later in the morning, she noticed that the bubbles in the feed line were not moving, and let the nurses know. It turns out the feed tube was clogged, and it had been about 2 hours since Timmy had any food going into him. The doctors were doing rounds at that point, heard that Timmy hadn't had any food in at least 2 hours and it got pretty exciting pretty quickly.
They were trying to put in a new feeding tube, and get the problems solved. No word yet as to whether they will turn up the feed a little to catch him up, or what the problem was. Just a reminder to keep praying for Timmy. We never know when he will need them the most!
*Update* The first attempt at a new NG tube didn't go well, so Jen nurse him for a while to settle him down, then they had to wait for the food to digest before trying again. They were successful on the second attempt. With 4 hours or so of not having food pumped into him, it is a 'loss' of about 80 calories. Out of his 520 calorie input for the day, that makes a dent in the nutrition side of things. He is back on track now, but the lost ground is just lost.
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