Good evening angela ah didn't know that ah your so brave you know feel so sorry for you now If you do not mind me asking if i may please what was the cause of that? were you born like that? Angela shall I tell you somthing now this is why we all need this group to get things off our chest to help one and other wehn we hear of people like you and our sweet vanessa who is in cronic pain in her weelchair she can't just stand up and walk about like us she can't just go out impossible and now look at you can't eat solid food oh dear Now I am the opposite eat and eat and eat but had test two eyars ago for Thyroid and it turned out i am under active now this might sound bloody stupid but if your under active thyroid you eat more but if your over active thyroid you eat less now that sounds silly But all i have on my mind is food 24 hours a day some times i am ill through eating too much end up sick in sink . I hate eating too much wish i didn't but its all i ever think about silly i know Very weird I know now on here there are lots of us with problems but sighted people do not have a clue at all like this lady says to me hey carol come on you can do it go and get a job love I just say hey reena hang on a minute love there are no jobs outside for us any more none for sighted and abled bodies so for god sake woman wake up i know i was blunt but i don't care because the governments bringing us all out of work so what chance as us blind ones got oh it doing my head in listening to them going on and on and on how life is so simple they havn't got a clue Take care Love Carol x.x.x.x. -----Original Message----- From: angela pageÈ - Email Address: craftymonty@xxxxxxx Sent On: 11/10/2011 20:58 Sent To: Dolphin guide - Email Address: guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [guide.chat] To Carol Hi carol, i will try and explian what my feeding tube is, i cant eat real food as i have problems with my tounge and swallowing. so last year i had a operation to have a feeding tube fitted it is a tube that goe,s into my stomach and i use a siringe to put special liquid food through it does not hurt. at the end there is a cap that you keep on,untill you have to feed then you undo that and attach the siringe filled with food to it,also you have to make sure i have the clamp shut if the cap is open otherwise stuff comes out and its not nice i did that a lot in the early days yuck. the peg tube nurse came today and fitted a new end cap on and said i have looked after the tube really well and she gave me top marks for it,she also told me they no longer change the whole tube(which would mean going through the operation again)1 to 2 years they leave it now till it has problems. she told me she see,s someone else who,s had the same tube for 11 years now. so im relived at that. I hope that has explained it abit to you Carol and everyone else here. ask away if you want i don,t mind one bit. Angela and monty