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11:08pm May 16, 2013
Stupid G tube tricks. So as I’ve mentioned in my other posts, I have a GJ tube. Meaning part goes into my stomach, part into my jejunum. You can see the two parts here. I eat through the J tube and expel acid and bile and fluids I don’t even want know WTF they are (seriously something ORANGE came out the other day), through the G tube. So in the picture the J tube is the one hooked up to the food, the G tube is the one just dangling there not doing anything in particular. So recently the G tube hasn’t been expelling a lot of stuff from my stomach. With the exception of one day when a huge amount of orange stuff came out. And another day when the normal green stuff came out. So of course I’ve wondered whether there was anything in there that wasn’t coming out. So I devised a test. Warning: Don’t try this if you can’t handle stuff in your stomach at all, obviously. Open G tube. Unclamp. Point it at the toilet. Drink water. Watch water almost instantaneously pour out the G tube into the toilet. This shouldn’t be amusing to me but for some reason it is. I can literally drink stuff into my stomach and immediately pour it out. Not that I make a habit of it. But I’ve done it a couple times. And it never ceases to be really funny to me to drink something and then watch it come out almost instantly. I almost wonder if they shouldn’t issue tubes to people with my sense of humor. I’m sure doctors would be bothered by me standing there drinking things and watching them come out the tube and giggling. Of course I’m not serious about that shouldn’t issue tubes thing. Have to qualify that remark because some asshole might take it seriously and start trying to crack down on such abuse of a Serious Business Medical Appliance. And of course I can’t do much of it or I really would throw up. My stomach doesn’t like me drinking more than a few sips of anything. Mostly ginger ale and water. Ginger ale blows bubbles when it comes out the tube though. Seriously. I wonder if little kids with tubes ever try things like this. But really the reason I just did it was to flush the tube without having to mess with syringes. It worked.

Stupid G tube tricks.

So as I’ve mentioned in my other posts, I have a GJ tube. Meaning part goes into my stomach, part into my jejunum. You can see the two parts here. I eat through the J tube and expel acid and bile and fluids I don’t even want know WTF they are (seriously something ORANGE came out the other day), through the G tube. So in the picture the J tube is the one hooked up to the food, the G tube is the one just dangling there not doing anything in particular.

So recently the G tube hasn’t been expelling a lot of stuff from my stomach. With the exception of one day when a huge amount of orange stuff came out. And another day when the normal green stuff came out.

So of course I’ve wondered whether there was anything in there that wasn’t coming out.

So I devised a test. Warning: Don’t try this if you can’t handle stuff in your stomach at all, obviously.

Open G tube. Unclamp. Point it at the toilet.

Drink water.

Watch water almost instantaneously pour out the G tube into the toilet.

This shouldn’t be amusing to me but for some reason it is. I can literally drink stuff into my stomach and immediately pour it out.

Not that I make a habit of it. But I’ve done it a couple times. And it never ceases to be really funny to me to drink something and then watch it come out almost instantly.

I almost wonder if they shouldn’t issue tubes to people with my sense of humor. I’m sure doctors would be bothered by me standing there drinking things and watching them come out the tube and giggling.

Of course I’m not serious about that shouldn’t issue tubes thing. Have to qualify that remark because some asshole might take it seriously and start trying to crack down on such abuse of a Serious Business Medical Appliance.

And of course I can’t do much of it or I really would throw up. My stomach doesn’t like me drinking more than a few sips of anything. Mostly ginger ale and water.

Ginger ale blows bubbles when it comes out the tube though. Seriously.

I wonder if little kids with tubes ever try things like this.

But really the reason I just did it was to flush the tube without having to mess with syringes. It worked.

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