Bill,

That's pretty common. Both the bit of leakage, and the "5 minutes of pain". My Dr. said there will be a little "friction". Yah, right.

I'll repeat JAM's statement. Keep it clean, and change the dressing. I worked down to a bandaid in about a week or so.

Congrads of getting the tube out. That was a big milestone for me. Keep at it.

Mike

Removed righside lymph node(stage III)on 10/10/05 Unknown Primary. 6x Carbo, 2x cistplatine, 8 weeks Radiation (not IRMT)