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Joined: Oct 2012 Posts: 1,275 Likes: 8 | My husband apparently had a “new” (at the time, four years ago) kind of PEG with about three inches of tubing hanging out. He was fed by using a large syringe to push the Ensure. A box of Ensure would be about four syringes.
We were advised not to use blended food because of the risk of blocking the tube. If the tube should ever get block, try unblocking it by pushing in some bubbly pop. The bubbles will push whatever is blocking the tube up and into the stomach. This was a trick the visiting nurse taught me.
Gloria
She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails... Elizabeth Edwards
Wife to John,dx 10/2012, BOT, HPV+, T3N2MO, RAD 70 gy,Cisplatinx2 , PEG in Dec 6, 2012, dx dvt in both legs after second chemo session, Apr 03/13 NED, July 2013 met to lungs, Phase 1 immunotherapy trial Jan 18/14 to July/14. Taxol/carboplatin July/14. Esophagus re-opened Oct 14. PEG out April 8, 2015. Phase 2 trial of Selinexor April to July 2015. At peace Jan 15, 2016.
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