 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | There are tiny clamps you can get that will clamp the tube closed. These work almost like miniature clothes pins but they look like a C-clamp with a very small screw to use to close the clamp. Im sorry its so hard to describe over the internet. Ask your nurse, she may have one for you or know where it you can get one. I never knew about them until my HBO nurse gave me a couple she had lying around her facility. Maybe in a pharmacy where they have durable medical equipment they would carry something like this.
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  | 
