My Aunt Rosemary is scheduled for reconstructive surgery to remove her adhesions and to add an extra flap of tissue to free up her new tongue on Feb. 13th. Because this surgery has nothing to do with treating her cancer and because she has been through so much to date, she is having this surgery done on her own terms. One of those conditions is that they not install another PEG because she hated it and it caused her additional problems by way of more adhesions in her belly. Her surgeon has agreed to this as long as she gets enough calories into her system while she's healing. Now we realize that she will be alittle swollen for the first week or two, but we're trying like heck to figure out a way to get 8 cans
of Ensure Plus a day down her throat. She'll need to consume an awful lot of calories post-op since she is eating ALOT now and is still losing a couple of pounds every few weeks. (She was alittle over 200 lbs. a year ago and now is a svelte 120-something). The only thing that I can think of is filling one of those water bottles with a sip top and squirting it into her mouth as far back as she can and then swallowing. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting the Ensure down her throat post-op??? Thanks in advance.

Lisa Stankus-DeStefano
Niece/almost daughter to Aunt Rosemary, Stage 3 Base of tongue, floor of mouth, salivary gland, 1 positive lymph node. First surgery May 2003.