[quote=Juicy Jules] I'm having a lot of cramping and issues with disguising it under clothing as it's soooo sore. Any advice or kind words out there? Thanks - Julie [/quote]

Hey, Julie!

Yeah, I get the cramps, too and made a new post about it, actually (though my PEG is roughly 48 hours old).

Here's what I do to hide it under my clothes (I also use this to assuage my fears of getting it tangled on something when I sleep):

Yknow those really tight spandex-like shirts that SCUBA divers sometimes wear beneath their wetsuits? When my son and I were taking lessons, we picked a couple up, but never wore them. This was largely because, while they look good on well-muscled individuals. With my belly, though, I resembled the dopey mouse in Cinderella and reminded me of the need for several more crunches.

Well, with a PEG, I don't think I'll be doing many ab exercises, and eventually looking good in that shirt will be a much more distant goal. I noticed, however, that if I cut the bottom half of the shirt off, that bottom half provided a sort of cummerbund that I could wear around my middle, keeping the tube and disk up against my skin.

I recently heard of folks cutting up sports bras for the same purpose.


SCC/Tonsil
DX 9/23/2010
Well Differentiated Lymph and Primary Removed 10/2010
Teeth Extraction 10/2010
PEG/Port Surgery 11/2010
Chemo (cisplatin) + rad 11/16/2010 -