Jennie, just one word about the hot tub. Since one of my favorite activities is to lounge about with a book in a bathtub, I asked my surgeon about "tubbing" it. He absolutely forbade me from anything but showers. So for a good seven months I did nothing but showers. However, after the tube was finally pulled I savored swimming pools and tubs again.

Funny thing though, after the tube was pulled and I went for my first tub soaking, I noticed that the filled tub didn't even REACH my incision site where my PEG was. ARRGH!!!!!

Jen