14/03/2026
Just days before chatting with , Kelsey Ward's five-year-old daughter, Scarlett, was dialling room service and ordering her own popsicles from a hospital bed.
“She had a scheduled tube change that was supposed to be later in the week, and then she started having all these complications,” says Kelsey. “We ended up inpatient, then we couldn’t do the procedure because her labs weren’t good enough. It was just one thing after another.”
As Scarlett and her family – including older brothers Jackson, 10, and eight-year-old Ryder – settle back into normality, Kelsey reflects on a truism she’s held close while tube-feeding her daughter since she was a newborn.
“Grief and gratitude can coexist,” she says. “You can have a day where you just have to cry it out and be like, this is not what I envisioned, but also be so grateful that tube-feeding exists because it’s keeping her growing and thriving and having a wonderful quality of life.”
Read the full story with here: https://www.theblendmag.com/family-stories/super-tubie-pride
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