#72653 04-08-2008 01:45 PM | Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 341 Platinum Member (300+ posts) | OP  Platinum Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 341 | I have read several older posts and received some advice currently that a portable suction machine would be of benefit to Dan to help with this choking mucous. We talked to our RO today and he said he had never prescribed one before, but would be happy to do so if we could tell him what it was called... So what did your doc's write on the scrip?
THANKS!!
Michelle, CG to husband (45), DX 2/08 Stage IVa Adenocarcinoma Salivary Gland (T2N2bMO)
Parotidectomy & ND 2/08, Tumor margins not clear, 4 of 30 nodes positve for cancer,
TX IMRT 39x, cisplatin 7x (completed 5/1/08),
PEG (4/22 - 7/9), No port. Currently in remission!
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Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 341 | Thanks Mike - that is exactly what I need. I'm going to e-mail his nurse again right now.
Michelle, CG to husband (45), DX 2/08 Stage IVa Adenocarcinoma Salivary Gland (T2N2bMO)
Parotidectomy & ND 2/08, Tumor margins not clear, 4 of 30 nodes positve for cancer,
TX IMRT 39x, cisplatin 7x (completed 5/1/08),
PEG (4/22 - 7/9), No port. Currently in remission!
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Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 341 | Ok we got one and the lady came out and delivered it on Friday and gave us the mouth suction attachment and the thin long deep throat suction attachment. Dan's tried it twice and it makes him gag terribly.
Any suggestions?
Michelle, CG to husband (45), DX 2/08 Stage IVa Adenocarcinoma Salivary Gland (T2N2bMO)
Parotidectomy & ND 2/08, Tumor margins not clear, 4 of 30 nodes positve for cancer,
TX IMRT 39x, cisplatin 7x (completed 5/1/08),
PEG (4/22 - 7/9), No port. Currently in remission!
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Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Try putting the canula (long part) in the side of his mouth and have him close his lips around it. That's how I did it in the hospital and it did a good job. I didn't try to stick it down my throat, instead got as much of it into my mouth as possible and then did as I describe above.
Is he using Guaffenasin also? Not sure if I spelled that right, but it's over the counter and really helped me in thinning out the secrections. I didn't have to use a suction machine during my raidation, only during my second surgery.
Good Luck,
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 341 | Hey Minnie thanks for the tip - we'll try it that way. Yes - he has been on Guafinasion - about 1500 mg per day for quite a while.
Michelle, CG to husband (45), DX 2/08 Stage IVa Adenocarcinoma Salivary Gland (T2N2bMO)
Parotidectomy & ND 2/08, Tumor margins not clear, 4 of 30 nodes positve for cancer,
TX IMRT 39x, cisplatin 7x (completed 5/1/08),
PEG (4/22 - 7/9), No port. Currently in remission!
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