[floriduh voter]

I wish feeding tube manufacturers would engage in a public relations campaign. Feeding tubes are not "machines". I've seen infant feeding tubes. They are like small backpacks and a small clear tube. The babies and children who need them are mobile and weren't in any distress.

I think it's ashame we have to step in to defend feeding tubes. Where are the manufacturers? They aren't explaining their product line well enough.

[Mrs. Don-o]

You are so right. A baby bottle and -— like I said -— a straw are “artificial feeding” too, I suppose, just like feeding tubes. And God knows there are doctors who would be helpless to survive without their plastic-— credit cards.

If people had a little more experience with how normal ordinary care works for those who are weak and disabled -— I mean good care in the hands of good caregivers -— they wouldn’t be so bothered about it. Much of it is simple, common-sense, service-with-a-smile, and allows even medically fragile -— yes, even terminally ill ——people to enjoy life in a modest measure.

Nourishment -— nurture -— it’s the most human thing in the world.