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When I was fifteen I finally fell off the growth charts for weight.  I had been teetering at the fifth percentile for a while, but at fifteen my weight dropped so low for my height that I completely fell off. Due to my gastroparesis anything I ate, I vomited back up.  If I didn’t puke it up it sat in my stomach without getting digested for days, it it got digested at all.  Because none of the typical treatments for gastroparesis were working it was no surprise that I was rapidly losing weight.

I had tried all the medications they made for gastroparesis, I had tried a million different diets, and I had tried meditation, but nothing worked.  On and off I would have NJ tubes placed, but the NJ tube feeding gave me really bad diarrhea and I couldn’t absorb certain nutrients through my digestive tract anymore.  Besides, at the beginning of the year when I was fifteen and losing weight rapidly, I didn’t have an NJ tube in.

About all I could tolerate in a day was one Pediasure and one Pedialyte.

Dr. Sampson and Dr. Kaye had a little conference about me and then Dr. Kaye called up my mom telling her she wanted me to come in for an appointment.