OP  "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | Hi all --
I was a little leery of "just sticking it back in" as well -- OK, obviously through the abdominal stoma is easy but how can you be sure that it is back into the stomach? The stomach wall was being held against the inner abdominal wall by the peg -- once out, there is no easy way to be sure the two holes are still aligned. I wouldn't be very happy about pouring 8 ounces of Nutren into someone's abdominal cavity! That's why Hopkins insisted on re-doing it with empty stomach, so they could be sure to get the peg back into the right spot using endoscope.
In any case, Barry's doing OK -- he ate over 2000 calories yesterday (lot easier to do on non-treatment days) and is into his 6th week so we are keeping our fingers crossed...
Gail
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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