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Joined: Oct 2007 Posts: 104 | My husband used overnight feedings through a gastro-jejunostomy tube (tube is placed in the stomach and passed through to the jejunem) without difficulty and just used 2 pillows for sleeping. He was not able to tolerate being propped up to sleep. We ran the feeding with a Compat pump and at no more than 115cc/hour. That meant running it for 12 hours at a time but then he was off for the 12 hours of day time. There are feeding pump kits now that can be carried in a backpack making daytime feeding more portable.
Caregiver to husband Dx. Stage 4 SCC of gingiva with 3 nodes pos. Partial mandiblectomy with bone graft from iliac crest Dec. 2006. IMRT x30, Cisplatin x3. Completed Tx. March 15, 2007. Osteonecrosis & removal of graft & plate Oct. 2007. Recurrence of SCC Dec. 2007. Deceased Jan. 17, 2008.
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