Oh my goodness what a morning we had!!!

Just as we were leaving the house we had a feeding pump backpack strap break causing us to remove the backpack, change everything out, and get a new backpack on. We arrived late to the apt due to this. Thank goodness the office knows Ellie and that she has to wear her feeding pump at all times and the importance of her backpacks and feeding pumps. Backpack malfunction should have told us about the kind of day we would have today...

Next our followup apt did not go as planned. We were scheduled today with the PA. As we were waiting for her to come in all of a sudden Ellie's pump started to make weird noises and I discovered her formula was suddenly spewing all over the place.

Honestly in nearly 8 yrs of tube feeding this is something I have NEVER seen or experienced. By this point Ellie was frantic as her feeding pump was freaking out on her and spitting formula on her, the floor, her coat, and the exam table. I quickly closed her clamp, disconnected her, unzipped her bag, and tried to assess the situation. Rapidly she became more frantic as her pump was NOT supposed to be spewing like it has a tummy.

Looking at the bag holding her bag and the icepack it looked ok but it was SOAKING wet. Flannel hold a TON of liquid by the way... By this time her pump was making very weird noises and now sitting and soaked in formula. Knowing the pump is now supposed to be soaked in formula I let more formula dump on the floor as I tried to free her pump from the bag. Finally the pump was free.

By this point I realized the tubing was jammed and stuck tight. There was no removing the tubing at all.

I left the room with my child dripping in formula standing all confused in a puddle of formula. Yes by this point while it felt like forever had only been maybe 30-45 seconds. I asked an assistant for a mop and help cleaning up the mess. They came in all confused and immediately saw the results the pump disaster.

By this point the PA was in the room as well to see what in the world was causing all the commotion. At this point she too was trying to help remove the stuck tubing which only resulted in breaking the tubing more. Stumped her focus now changed from the original apt to now helping us get a new feeding pump.

With a new pump delivery secured we were able to move on to the originally planned apt, however, we were now running almost 90 minutes behind. Sigh welcome to our family and the effects of Murphy as he constantly gets our family.