Hi Tami --

Barry's peg fell out almost two weeks ago, and there were several failures on same day (one j-tube as well). Hopkins thinks they got a bad batch -- the balloons just deflated and the things fell out! Several of the patients were pretty dependent ontheir tubes and these had to have priority to be reinserted, trying to do within 24 hours to use same opening -- this was done but involved (as with your mom) re-doing the endoscopy etc. although no additional surgical opening.

Docs and nurses conferred and decided since Barry was eating 100% by mouth to not reinsert as he was close to end of treatment -- this proved a good decision. If it had been just a matter of "sticking it back in" he would have done that but didn't want to go through the whole procedure again.

Gail