 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Christine, your PEG is the kind that I took out for cleaning and reinstalled three times by myself.
Actually, the only PEG that is really a PEG is the kind installed with endoscope (The E in PEG). The others are G-tubes.
My most recent PEG, before the Mic-Key, was in for six months and was still going strong. I have it here at home and the tube is still flexible, the Y-cap is replaceable and the mushroom anchor is good, albeit discolored.
Charm, I wish my Docs would trust me with the silver nitrate sticks...
Pete
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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