A woman recalls how it feels like to wear her feeding tube in public. (Photo: Chanel & Noel, Chelsey Shaw Photography) I’ve gotten them all: the blank stares, the whispered rumors, the occasional ...
Rachel can’t taste any of the foods she makes, but cooking gives her a connection to her family and friends. This essay is part of Teen Voices’ Girl Fuse series, featuring stories by and about girls ...
Feeding tubes are designed to nourish patients, not deprive them of calories and hasten weight loss. News reports of a feeding tube diet popped up, followed by a slew of TV reports on the new “trend.” ...
One friend told police that Brown's daughter "didn't have to be" on a feeding tube and reportedly ate a meal at McDonald's ...
Indiana authorities have charged a 32-year-old mother with fraud and child neglect after investigators alleged she forced her ...
"Putting a feeding tube in my mother was the worst decision we ever made. I will not make that mistake with my father." The speaker's father had a Living Will stating that he did not want a feeding ...
A Milwaukee woman learned a feeding tube was left in her body for more than 30 years. The woman said the tube was inserted while she was on life support in 1989, but it was never removed. Now, the ...
An Indiana woman allegedly falsely claimed her child needed a feeding tube in order to receive grant payments. According to ...
With Terri Schiavo lying in her hospice bed, the world around her was in the midst of a political and legal storm: Congress was issuing subpoenas demanding she be brought before a hearing, lawyers ...
HOUSTON -- Have you ever considered losing weight with a feeding tube? Many across the country are paying big bucks to drop the pounds fast with the KE Diet. Jeanetly Lizalde of Houston, Texas, was ...