Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: Sep 2008 Posts: 27 | Another option for the feedings - instead of the pump at night - is to use the gravity method (food drips from a bag that hangs on a pole - looks like an IV) during the day. We started doing this for my husband on Thursday because the bolus method was making him sick. It's been wonderful. He doesn't feel like doing much other than lie around so he doesn't mind having to sit/lie around for two hours at a time (that's the time it takes to get two cans in him). He's now regularly getting 2400+ a day, whereas with the bolus he was lucky if he got 1,700 in a day. And he's no longer nauseated.
Caregiver to husband, 44, nonsmoker, nondrinker Diagnosed 7/15/08 with BOT SCC, stage IVa. Two positive nodes removed Cisplatin and erbitux ended 10/15/08 Radiation over 10/20/08 Back to work 11/24/08 PEG out 12/9/08 Scans 12/2008 and 3/2009 Clear
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