 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 |
OMG!!!!! The kind of tube you have is NOT supposed to do that!!!!! I have the same kind a J/G tube and still call it a PEG.
I am surprised that your docs make you sit in post op. I walk in, dont even have to change, get on the table lift up my shirt and they drape me with sterile cloths. Then they lidocaine the site and change it out while I watch on the screens. Less than 10 minutes later, Im walking out the door with my shiny new tube. My last one also lasted longer than normal, it made it for 4 months before it sprung a leak. You are a brave man to do it without pain meds.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
