As a matter of fact, David, I plan to get some VHC later on, so thanks for the ordering details -- I am a lazy fellow, and retirement has made that worse, so a can of nourishing food for breakfast is just the ticket, plus some coffee of course!

BTW, I went to my favorite bakery/cafe yesterday and had my first cup of coffee (cafe au lait in the big fat ceramic cup) since my surgery in late June -- It was great, but I'm going to have to use the cardboard cups for a while because my new tongue wasn't cooperating with the big fat cup and I was spilling a lot. Also, had to wait for it to cool down.

The barista and I were comparing scars; he had an elbow ligament replaced and they harvested it from another part of his arm -- But my shark-bite wrist trumped his little ligament scar, plus my slit throat and trach hole are pretty good stuf. I feel like a big kid!

Christine, I just tried jacking the flow up to 160, and I could feel that one building up, plus I get a sweating forehead as a warning, so I put it back down to 125 and that seems OK so far.

I wonder what has changed internally because post-radiation two and a half years ago, I would routinely gravity-feed two cans in fifteen minutes, which is a flow rate of 2,000 ml/hr!!

I do like using the pump, however, and it's not difficult to stop it and disconnect when I need to be un-tethered. I just wish the batteries worked so when I move it back and forth between bedroom and living room I wouldn't need to redo the settings (did I mention that I am lazy?) -- Sooner or later, I will be taking the little sucker apart to see if the batteries can be replaced without too much fuss.


Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.