The Adventures of a Traveling Tubie!
Our family has taken long trips several times before (always by car) but this past trip was the longest drive and the longest stay we've taken since Case became a Tubie. We drove about 10 hours and stayed 7 days in North Carolina with extended family. We also stayed in VA on the way down making it a total of 8 days. That means 8 feedbags, 8 Farrell bags, 2 right angle extension tubes (for all his feeds), 1 roll of medical tape (to keep tubes in at night), 8 Mickey-Button pads, 24 cans of Compleat Pediatric, 1 can of DuoCal, 2 empty bottles and caps, medications, syringes to flush and dispense meds, 1 emergency back-up Mic-Key button kit, his feeding pump and a large syringe with a straight angle extension- in case (God forbid) Case's only pump breaks, and we have to wait for a new feeding pump to be overnighted from Pittsburgh. Oh, and his Pumpkin Pack. Oy! That's a lot of stuff! And 95% of it can't be just picked up at Wal Mart if we leave it home.;) So, to ans...