My Mom has been having trouble with her Peg all week. It kept backing up and spilling out around the opening of the tube. She visited the gastro dr and he tightened it during the week and told her to use alka seltzer when it clogs. Ever since he tightened it it has been causing her discomfort but it was working. Yesterday she had more problems and nothing would go down it. She went in to see the dr again and he decided to replace the tube. After taking out the old one he realized that it was never clogged and that the inner tube to the stomach had fallen out. Therefore he need to do the entire operation over again. She is in so much agony right now! They had to scope her very sore radiated throat. The gastro doc said that her throat was in really bad shape-very raw! She just started making progress with pain (down to 25 mg of Fentanyl) Now she is in agony. Anyone ever hear of such a crazy thing? How could something like this happen? I feel lik we made one step forward 5 steps back! Ugh!!
Tami