Thank you for your quick and helpful responses Jeffrey, Rosie, and Brian. We are using Jevity with fiber, Lactulose (30cc/day for past two weeks), and Senokot to try to battle the constipation. The options given to us for feeding were CAD pump (noisy, seemed to clog easily when we used it in the hospital right after surgery) or bolus feeding with a syringe...I have been asking the nurses about other options (like what I had read about here on this forum) but they all shrug and say they aren't aware of them. The tube has been a problem from the start, until the surgeon adjusted it in the hospital the other day, it was "popping" frequently (the plastic disc that keeps it in place would be sucked in to Jim's belly (about a 1/2 inch indentation) then 2-3 seconds later it would pop back out, like a bubble had burst inside or something...it caused Jim quite a bit of pain and the Doc kept shrugging it off until Jim got angry with him for seeming like he didn't believe it was doing it...eventually he witnessed it, but wasn't sure why it was happening (he adjusted the balloon that keeps it in place, he adjusted the length because he thought the stomach might be trying to "digest" the tube, and it seems better, but still happens now and then). Jeffrey, it sounds like you might be on to something, maybe we just don't have it right yet...Brian, do you know where I would get this feeding bag? Is there a company that makes them that I could contact, I will try asking the folks at Advantacare who supply us with the Jevity and (if we were using one, the CAD pump).

I truly appreciate all your suggestions and responses,

thanks

Jan