Tonya, welcome to OCF. Please begin a new post when asking questions so your post will get the attention it deserves.

Your mother in law still has 6 more radiation treatments. This is the time when most patient have the most difficulty. zEven the patients who have sailed right thru tend to struggle the last few treatments and the next 3 weeks after finishing. To remove the peg tube before she has gotten thru the worst part is not a good idea.

If your mother in law is able to eat, she should. Its much better to eat than use the peg tube. Just make sure she flushes it daily even if she isnt using it. The leakage is pretty normal. As long as most of what she takes in isnt coming back out as leakage then she is doing ok. Everyone has some drainage around where the tube is coming out of their stomach. I use what is called drain sponges to keep from staining my clothes.

Please let us know what the doc says on Tues. Best of luck to your MIL with her last few treatments smile


Christine
SCC 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 smile