OK...now I have to tell my nasogastric story. When I was 13 (back in 1969 eek ), my father was a pharmacist at the Air Force base we were stationed at in Wichita, Kansas (where I was born, too). At the kickoff of Poison Prevention Week, I was put on a gurney and they "simulated" pumping my stomach from ingesting poison. They took the tube and started inserting it in my nose, snapped a photo and put it in the base newspaper. I was a hero amongst the kids. Sad though, I have had a fear of tubes put in my nose since. Just the thought of it when it was mentioned in the first post on this thread had me reaching for my "second belly button" with pride!

Best wishes for Ken to choose whatever he feels is best to get through his treatment.

Ed laugh

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