 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | I was gravity feeding once and went in the bathroom and somehow hooked the tubing under the door. It was like a dog running till the end of the chain suddenly appears. The end result (after the scream) was laying on the floor with 2 ribs cracked from the inside out.
I had a lot of problems with the first one. They put the disc and the stitches in and the stitches kept ripping. When they cut them, the little toggle fell in and is still in there somewhere next to the surgical clip used to palace the tube. Makes for good conversion with every scan, along with the broken needle in my buttocks from a dilaudid shot.
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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