From the time I was nine my entire life had consisted of medical appointments after medical appointments. By the time I was nine and a half I had been misdiagnosed with an eating disorder, and at age ten I passed out in an elevator and was sent to the hospital for my first hospitalization and first feeding tube.
My first feeding tube was an NG tube. It stayed in the whole month that I was being stabilized on the medical unit. On the medical unit, I was put on specialized IV fluids, hooked up to a heart monitor, a blood pressure monitor, and an oxygen monitor. The hospital discovered that I had been in acute kidney failure and had to nurse my kidneys back to health.
After a month in the medical unit, I was finally pronounced medically cleared and was transferred to the pediatric psychiatric unit with the NG … Find Out What Happens Next