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#195653 01-29-2018 06:36 PM
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I would like to hear your opinion on the type of PEG tube you like. The tube type with a long tube or a skin level button? Mine was put in during an endoscopy, so I have no balloon and I have the long tube hanging out . Do they just pull these out and insert the balloon type? I also blend my food. Will that make a difference on the type? I think I would like to have the button. Any thoughts?


15 year survivor of tonsil cancer. In 2002 I was diagnosed with Stage III squamous cell carcinoma. I had a left neck dissection, teeth removed, and 38 radiation treatments. In 2015 I received a feeding tube and in 2016 a trach, both due to radiation side effects. But I'm happy to say that life has been good to me!!
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My husband apparently had a “new” (at the time, four years ago) kind of PEG with about three inches of tubing hanging out. He was fed by using a large syringe to push the Ensure. A box of Ensure would be about four syringes.

We were advised not to use blended food because of the risk of blocking the tube. If the tube should ever get block, try unblocking it by pushing in some bubbly pop. The bubbles will push whatever is blocking the tube up and into the stomach. This was a trick the visiting nurse taught me.


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She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards

Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.

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