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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | John showers with a piece of Saran Wrap placed over where the tube is. For the secretion around the tube, he cleans it with saline soaked gauze a couple of times a day. Some people cover it with and some don't. Our home care nurse advises covering it in such a way that the gauze soaks up the secretion so that the skin is spared.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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