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Lynn Patient Expert

Chicago, Illinois
Blog: http://my1spot.wordpress.com/
I am a former paramedic, former insurance claim investigator, and the mother of five!  My youngest has had many hospitalizations and medical emergencies.  She is fed by g-tube and I have become a specialist in g-tubes.  
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Contamination?!?!?! puhleeeeeeeeeeeezzzz… by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Image via Wikipedia I am angry today – sorry but it is true!!!  In the journey of parenting a child with special needs, we run into the very educated, ... Read on »
Magnesium and Calcium by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I promised to report on the effects of epsom salts baths. As the parent of a child with special needs I am always looking for ways to improve her life, and thereby ... Read on »
Sensory Kids and Epsom Salts by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine I just read an interesting article here on the benefits of epsom salts.  So that you don’t have to read the whole article, here are a couple of main points, and I quo ... Read on »
Ups and Downs by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine We’ve been through a few ecstatic weeks that I had hoped would not end.   As the parent of a child with special needs, specifically sensory processing disorder that ... Read on »
Teeth by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When feeding a person by g-tube for medical reasons, tooth care is still very important.  Because of my daughter’s sensory processing disorder, which causes her to ... Read on »
sensory processing and stuff in her mouth by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Since we feed Little Miss by g-tube for medical reasons, there isn’t THAT much occasion for “stuff” to be in her mouth. There are two things that get into her mouth ... Read on »
A Model with Autism by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Notice the nice conclusion his 17-yr-old brother draws from this. Senior portrait for Mundelein High grad leads to modeling gig by Kristina Hauptmann All C ... Read on »
Transitions by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine OH MY GOSH!!!!  It has been a WILD couple of days.  Parenting a child with special needs, especially sensory processing disorder, can be QUITE a roller coaster! Y ... Read on »
AIR BUBBLES!!! by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine One of the advantages of feeding a child via g-tube for medical reasons is the ability to control their nutrition!  I’m certain that one of the reasons my daughter ... Read on »
Air Bubbles by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Making blended meals for my daughter, who is fed by g-tube for medical reasons, incorporates LOTS of air into her meals.  This is detrimental in two ways:  she gets ... Read on »
Smoothies for breakfast… by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It is 6:35 am and I have already fed my family.  Parenting a child with special needs, who is g-tube fed for medical reasons has led me down paths I’d have avoided.   ... Read on »
G-tubes and Mouth Eating – Part 2 by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine It is amazing that after 12 years of feeding issues, Little Miss has been eating by mouth daily for the last two weeks!  Now, this doesn’t even BEGIN to mean we are ... Read on »
G-tubes and Mouth Eating by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Raising a child fed by g-tube for medical reasons has been a big part of my daily life for 12 years.  I would never have anticipated getting so casual about it a ... Read on »
Autistic-Like? by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Last night I went into Chicago to see a private screening of “Autistic-Like: Graham’s Story”.  This one hour film is made by a documentarian (no that is not a 10 ye ... Read on »
Check out this e-magazine by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine Wow!  When tube feeding a child (or adult) for medical reasons, it can take a long time to find resources that are truly helpful. I stumbled across this e-magaz ... Read on »
Brushing Teeth by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine My daughter is fed by g-tube for medical reasons.  She has a sensory processing disorder that results in her being quite orally aversive. This means brushing teeth is ... Read on »
Mess Containment by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When feeding someone via g-tube for medical reasons, there can be lots of messes to deal with!  As the parent of a child with disabilities I have cleaned up messes ... Read on »
Probiotics by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine My daughter is fed via g-tube for medical reasons.  This doesn’t actually have much to do with today’s post on probiotics, except for one thing which I”ll tell you ... Read on »
Enzymes by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine When feeding via g-tube (or j-tube) for medical reasons, an initial digestive step is bypassed.  According to what I read, the moment food passes our lips, our bodi ... Read on »
Here’s a picture of her g-tube site. by Lynn Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in General Medicine She’s been asleep for a while so the sheets have wrinkled her tummy!  Her Mic-Key button, as you can see, is very close to her belly button. That white horizont ... Read on »
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