When doctors suggested Juliette try a feeding tube, she wasn't keen. But even with a long road to recovery ahead, she says it helped her find herself again.
abc.net.au/news/enteral-tube-feeding-dietitian-led-nutrition-disabilities-health/102061212Juliette McAleer was a busy working mum studying for her PhD when she was hospitalised late one night and diagnosed with a twisted bowel.
Juliette experienced multiple complications and was trying to keep her nutrition up in hospital via total parenteral nutrition, or TPN, meaning liquid food was administered straight into her veins.Juliette McAleer now lives with Short Bowel Syndrome after suffering complications from a twisted bowel.
"I think dietitians don't get the love they deserve in, you know, allied health, they are honestly champions. And for a time she was my lifeline. "To start feeling as if my brain was coming back to life was just such a key turning point in my recovery from this really serious illness," she said."My sense of humour had returned a bit more, I was more energetic, and more myself, really. And that was really important to me."
Juliette said she still sits down to dinner with her family each night, and tries to make things as normal as possible for her and her partner's five children. She said the idea of enteral tube feeding could sound daunting, but it can save lives and improve quality of life significantly.It's a way to provide nourishment to people who have difficulty eating or swallowing food normally
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