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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 7 | Is he not eating because he feels nauseous? Do talk to the doctors about it. There is medication that can alleviate the nausea. It is important to keep the insertion site of the PEG clean. He should be changing the dressing and cleaning the site everyday. Ask the nurses at the hospital to show you how it should be done. John does a saline soak of the site three times a day and covers it with a barrier cream called ProShield Plus. Then he puts a drainage sponge (a dressing with a slit in it) on it.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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