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#39378 10-31-2005 11:43 AM | Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,019 | Elocia, Before I got my PEG, I had been through a long ordeal from a lumpectomy site on my breast that abcessed and had to be opened and drained and then healed through wet-to-dry packing every day for five weeks. There was lots of tape used to cover that wound and I developed an allergic skin reaction to almost all tape including the paper tape Gail mentions. So after a couple of weeks fooling with taping the PEG to my stomach, I got to where I just stuck the tube into the waistband of my pants and trusted that it wouldn't fall out and flop around when I did that and in general that has worked just fine (a couple of times it came out of the waistband when I was wearing pants that were two sizes too big because I'd lost so much weight but I solved that with some new clothes) . 
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia. "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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