 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 5,260 | Although I never had a tube and survived everything I have been thru, I would advise getting the tube. I maybe am lucky or maybe just so hardheaded and set in my ways that nothing is going to beat me. I neither look my age nor act it. I owe that to my hard head. LOL I just refuse to get old and stay young. I been told that I am a one of a kind by Drs, Dentists, and many others. But if I were you, I sure would go for that tube. With it I might not have lost 70 lbs. Listen to these people. Most have worn the same shoes you have on now.
Since posting this. UPMC, Pittsburgh, Oct 2011 until Jan. I averaged about 2 to 3 surgeries a week there. w Can't have jaw made as bone is deteroriating steaily that is left in jaw. Mersa is to blame. Feeding tube . Had trach for 4mos. Got it out April.
--- Passed away 5/14/14, will be greatly missed by everyone here
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