See the Good in Everything

A week (or two months) late and a buck (or closer to two thousand) short. I started this blog a while ago, like during the actual Feeding Tube Awareness Week (Valentines Day), and obviously time has yet again flown by. To celebrate Feeding Tube Awareness week, and Heart Day- we visited our friends in Radiology and had a Swallow study! Probably our most traumatic yet. Not because it was painful or horrific, but because trying to get a toddler to do anything is like getting a cat to voluntarily bathe or a man to administer his own pain injection for a vasectomy.... Thank goodness for patient nurses, radiologists and therapists- also for the amazing technology that is BigBlock SingSong. After attempting to get him to sit on his own, I finally had to hold him while a nurse held my phone and a tech held a variety of rotating light toys and his cars while the therapist tried to get him to eat and drink the various varieties of food/liquids. I was somewhat opposed to the study to beg