 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | A little blender or food processor will enable you to chop up just about anything and put it down the PEG as long as it's liquid enough.
There are a number of books around about liquid meals also.
Being lazy, once I lost my appettite, I went totally to liquid food and the PEG for nourishment (7 x 350cal = 2,450cal/day), but kept on swallowing water and my medications (if swallowing gets to be really tough, there are manual pill grinders available, but one must check with pharmacist because time-release tablets shouldn't be ground -- Many of the meds are also available in liquid form).
Some folks with extensive surgery rely on the packaged liquid nourishments for the rest of their lives.
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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