NG is a go! :)

today, day2 of our TI procedural skills training thingy....
one of the procedures we had to learn to do was how to put in an NG tube...
we could do it on each other, or on the model/dummy...

so, it was riyaz and i partnered up again...
we got to the station and after the nurse-educator finished her explanation, i voluntered....
i said, "i'll do it"...to which riyaz responded with a look of horror and said "on me?!?"...
i laughed, assured him that i was gonna let him put the tube down my nose....

it was definitely weird! thankfully it was a small tube - size 10 - and well lubricated! it was slightly uncomfortable up the nasal canal...and felt really sharp as it hit the stricture before passing into the nasopharynx...at tht point, they got me to keep on swallowing water to help ease the tube down....

boy, did THAT feel weird!!! especially when u could feel the end of the tube juz sitting at ur throat....tht's when we pulled it out...*phew*...good thing it didnt have to go all the way down into the stomach - or we would definately have had a spillage of lunch!

so....role-reversal! got riyaz - who didnt wanna do it at first - to let me put an NG down his nose...definately fun making him squirm! :)

so now, when i put it down a real patient, i can confidently say to them tht it's not as bad as i'd imagined it to be......:)