 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Donna, during my recovery from the radiation, I could take the liquid nutrition as fast as I could gravity feed it into my PEG.
However, during recovery from my first free flap surgery, the food was going through me very fast; I would get the sweats, some stomach pain and then the runs -- Per advice of nutritionist and folks here on the forum, I acquired a food pump and set it to deliver food at a very low speed (20 ml/hr), which worked quite well -- I could even set it to run while I was sleeping to catch up on the calories -- I used Nutren 2.0 (500 cal/can).
Now in my current recovery, I can again take in the food at fairly high rates (250 ml/hour; or a can per hour) with no problems.
David, I like "Involuntary Anorexia"!
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.
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