Hello K:
I am so sorry about your father. After all he had been through, and expecting a healthy recovery, it must be devastating to lose him. I can only guess, and you probably won't ever be able to get the exact reason for what happened, but I know I had trouble with my feeding tube PEG, and the area around where it went in became very sore. I called my gastro doctor and he basically told me something like "it's normal to be sore; it'll get better." Well, it didn't. Several days later while walking down my hallway, the tube just fell out of the opening and all of this brown gunk came pouring out. I went to the ER, after finally contacting the gastro doctor, and the nurse told me she would have to re-insert one because that is what the doctor ordered. It was so terribly sore, I would not let her do it, had her bandage it, and left the hospital with stuff still coming out. I had an appointment with my chemo doctor that day, showed him the hole/drainage, and he took a culture. I had a very bad pseudomonas infection which is hard to heal. I never threw up anything though, although I was very nauseous. You could research that, but it's just so terribly hard to pinpoint what happened to your father. I would be doing the same thing - looking for an answer, but it just may be something you'll have to accept. It's too late for an autopsy, and if one of the doctors he had suspected something hadn't been done right, they would not tell you because a lawsuit fear. Just know your Father is not having to suffer pain anymore and will always be with you and your family. So sorry, again.
julieann
Julieann
Nov 2007 SCC on right tonsil following tonsillectomy. Was smoker, QUIT. (Stage IV T2 N2b) 7 weeks radiation one day/wk chemo (carboplatin and 5-FU). Allergic to Taxol; PEG in, lost 30 lbs. TX completed January 2008. PEG out mid- 2008. PET/CT 1/17/2011;2/3/12 NEGATIVE for cancer