Tubie Talks
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Lilly Downs: Cheerios and coming off tubes
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Missed prom, met her people online, and came off every tube she had.
In this episode of Tubie Talks: Hooked Up, Steph sits down with 21-year-old Lilly Downs to talk life after a COVID diagnosis turned everything upside down. They cover feeding tubes in high school, finding friendship through illness, dating with medical baggage, and waking up one morning to a video with a million views.
Tubie Talks: Hooked Up is a Heart Out Media podcast proudly supported by Medicina, supplier of the GFit Low Profile Gastrostomy Button and a range of enteral feeding devices.
You can follow Lilly on TikTok and Instagram.
CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes open discussion of chronic illness and medical trauma.