Woosh, there goes another NGT

I wonder how much these NGT tubes cost. They don't cost us anything except for about an hour of our time to get them fitted again.

The rostered head nurse greeted me kindly at the paediatric ward. She is always good fun and she is excellent at placing the tubes. She looked at my detubed son and said, "he is easy to place the tubes in isn't he".

So I looked at her quizzically and said "you mean apart from the aspiration, blockages and vomiting that usually happens with it don't you?". She hadn't had a problem doing him in the past so that came as a bit of a surprise to her. I praised her past skill in tubing him and so she did his tube again. This time and it went pretty smoothly, as smoothly as it can go anyway.