 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 372 | Michelle,
My Dan went for at least 6 weeks w/o being able to talk and even longer w/o eating or drinking anything at all. He used the PEG for everything as nothing would go down...not even a sip of water. He had the PEG for 5 months and then slowly was able to just eat tiny little bits and drink lukewarm water. He also was able to drink Carnation Instant Breakfast some and that had some good calories for him.
God bless and take care,
Debbie
Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.
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