 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | I was talking to my nurse practitioner today during followup treatment and mentioned that my current PEG has two small diameter tubes instead of the single large tube that my previous one had. She said that if I wanted, we could replace the current PEG with a larger one (current PEG requires forcing food with syringe instead of just gravity feed). As I mentioned above, the current PEG was installed with just a local anesthetic and some X-ray instead of using the endoscope and was a much easier procedure for me.
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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