Yes, he is now doing great. Thank you. Each and every day I count my blessings to still have my son. It is even hard to type this without becoming very emotional.
Yes, they had to NG him...two different times. Yes, it was awful for him to go through, and after all was said and done I wonder if I would have had the inner strength to do the same.
After doing the tube placement, we had to go down to get XRAYs to see if the placement was correct. He had been throwing up (hundreds of times) over several days, was taken completely off food and then off liquids. He was already severely underweight and weak. It had been a real struggle to do the NG tube. and he was crying that he didn't want it. While we were waiting for the XRAY, a family was talking to an elderly woman who there for some test. They were upset with her because she was refusing to undergo more tests. She had had enough. My son was watching this. He looked at me for awhile, then softly told me that he wasn't ready to give up.