This week is Feeding tube awareness week.

I am a tubie!

I have had a feeding tube now for 17+ months.

All types of people for all sorts of reasons have a feeding tube, they are life saving! Without mine I would be very very ill and would have little to no quality of life.

I look well (most of the time 😜), whilst people will say I don’t look sick enough or think that I am too Healthy to have a feeding tube… that is not the case…..I am healthyish BECAUSE I have a feeding tube.

People with feeding tubes can and do live perfectly functional lives sometimes without you even knowing. They may be completely tube fed or they may just ‘top’ up their calories whatever they need. Yes some people can still eat with a tube!

Please take this week to learn about feeding tubes and help spread awareness!!

#feedingtubeawareness