Monday January 30 th , 7:50

Waited all day for Papa's physicians to FINALLY show up.   His tube feeding had been disconnected , because it was clogged , since 7:00 a.m. yesterday .  It had to be restarted by his surgeon and was  by 6:00 p.m. today.  We met Dr. Jason Breaux, his new surgeon, and his internist Dr. Dugas.  Both were kind and attentive. Dr. Dugas was amazed at the number of drains coming from his belly.  He was also not happy to know that Papa had not been receiving even some sort of IV fluids while off of his feeding tube.  This was something we were concerned about, asked the nurses about , but nothing was done to fix the problem.  Dr. Dugas ordered IV fluids for him and said he would get Papa fixed up.  I was sure to let him know about the uncooperative nurses we had over the weekend.  Papa looked relieved that his new Dr.s had arrived.  He ate today with no vomiting, but his tube wasn't clamped for most of the feedings.  Dr. Breaux reassured us that the stomach/ g-tube issue will take time to resolve and he suggested using the clamp slowly, for short periods  and building up to longer, just as Townsend had suggested.  He had occupational therapy, but was dizzy so couldn't do much more than sit on his bedside. Probably a drop in blood pressure, and weakness from lack of nutrition.Dialysis tomorrow.