@scooter8484 I am sorry about your grandma. I thought I could offer some information about feeding tubes since my dad had one for a long time. Initially, he had one because of a head injury and lost the ability to swallow and was in his mid sixties at the time. His recovery took several months and eventually he relearned how to swallow and the tube was removed. As he aged, he had trouble swallowing correctly. He never did it particularly well, but in his 80's he was starting to choke on food and aspirate and had pneumonia because of it. There were swallowing tests he failed, and he had a feeding tube again. The stomach shrinks when it doesn't regularly get stretched with food volume which affects liquid feeding because that will pass much slower through a much smaller stomach. With my dad, it was set up like an IV drip that was connected to his tube, and sometimes it took an hour or more to get the liquid into him. If the drip went too fast, it could back up in his throat and choke him causing aspiration. If that happened, the line could be disconnected, and the feeding tube opened to drain stomach content quickly which I had to do a few times. The patient has to be sitting up to do this and can't recline, at least not more than 45 degrees because of the aspiration and choking risk. Eventually the stomach can't really tolerate this and the choking/aspiration risk is always there. That is how my dad passed after aspirating which then caused a heart attack. I had discussed that possibility with his doctors a couple weeks before it happened and I knew to expect this. I hope that gives you some understanding of the problems of managing a feeding tube. They can also become infected and need to be replaced. You need to clean around them on the skin surface daily and flush them with water after use. They can also be pulled out by the patient possibly unknowingly if dementia is involved.