Gypsy Rose Blanchard

So the most prominent ones were, of course, the feeding tube.

Now, my mother claimed that I was having trouble swallowing.

Now, I have no recollection of ever having any eating issues.

You know, the surgery happened when I was eight.

So from birth all the way to eight years old, eating perfectly fine.

No issues.

Then all of a sudden, going to the hospital, having...

Issues eating.

And they had put the temporary feeding tube through the nostril.

And then the doctor said, we want to do something more permanent.

How about let's do a G-tube?

Yeah.

So they put a permanent feeding tube.

And I had that all the way up until the crime happened.

All the way through my teen years, yeah.

So does that mean that you then never... It's not that I didn't eat by mouth, but ate very little by mouth.

So I would like like mashed potatoes.

I was allowed to eat that.

But I was mostly fed through the feeding tube with PediaSure or Ensure, which is just a supplemental nutrition shake.

I mean, physically, every six months I would have to have it changed because any sort of foreign object in your body, the stomach acid is going to erode it away.