[Gpdd] HEALTH syringe feeding update

[Ginger Fitzsimmons]

Niles's mommy, Heather, came to visit. (I'm just fostering the 
incredibly cute little squeaker.) After lots of visits and cuddles and 
a little peeing on Heather, I grabbed him up in a towel (in case there 
was to be more peeing), set him on my lap, thought of your encouraging 
words, firmly held his head and put the syringe in the side of his 
mouth. He looked surprised and disgruntled, but took the first 
syringeful. I refilled, took his head again and we did it again! He 
tried to protest by chewing the syringe, but that just seemed to make 
things easier. From the look on his face, he felt cheated but everyone 
survived four or five syringefuls, after which I declared victory since 
almost all the medication slurry was in Niles and nobody was wearing 
any. From today's snuggles it appears there are no hard feelings.

I'm using a 1ml syringe to feed a slurry of one crushed shilintong 
tablet and water. The thicker the slurry, the fewer syringefuls, so I'm 
working on how thick we can go.

Thank you all for your help. We can do this!

-ginger
with warm Niles leaning on left arm, so typos are his fault :-)