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finally some improvement

weeniewife74
  • By weeniewife74 · New reply August 17, 2012
  • 3 replies
  • Hello all My husband went from choking on his own saliva to Swallowing 60% and now is eating pudding", applesauce apeanutbutter and yogurt. Its been almost 5 months since his stroke - I pray everyday ...

is his tube feed here for good?

weeniewife74
  • By weeniewife74 · New reply July 21, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • Hello I am new to this group my husband had a leftside cerebral hemorrhage in March. He is currently being tube fed and is having problems swallowing his own saliva. The thing is that he passed a barium ...

picc line burning under the skin

drew85
  • By drew85 · New reply July 19, 2012
  • 1 reply
  • About 3 weeks ago my husband was admitted into the hospital for a very rare sinuites n it absets in his forhead and the infection went into his bone in his forhead. He had to be put on a Picc line in ...

Brand new, need all the info I can get

justme615
  • By justme615 · New reply October 6, 2011
  • 3 replies
  • I am so happy to have found this site. My husband has been in ICU for 2 months and the story is very ong and has complications, I am posting a link ( http://www.gofundme.com/7sz9w ) to the site I use ...

Newbie

DragonLadyhere
  • By DragonLadyhere · New reply February 20, 2011
  • 3 replies
  • Hi, my name is Johanna. My husband has had a very rough 2010 and is now home with a J-tube and a G-tube. His stomach was severely damaged after a sudden bout of Acute Pancreatitis accompanied by a psuedocyst ...

J-PEG FEEDING

lynjowton
  • By lynjowton · New reply December 4, 2010
  • 4 replies
  • Hi can anyone tell me the quality of life someone who has to be Jpegfed maybe for life. Any day to day info please e.g being able to work socialise and have a private life if you get my meaning . Thank ...

You Are all so inspirational

Dr_Bru
  • By Dr_Bru · New reply November 18, 2010
  • 3 replies
  • This year can only be described as a nightmare with regards to what has happened with my wife laura and my baby boy Theo who was born 3 months premature due to complications with my wifes pregancy. Both ...

feeding time

harold-caesar
  • By harold-caesar · New reply August 15, 2010
  • 7 replies
  • my wife is getting fed starting at 3pm and ends in the am is this normal ...

Dissolving Medications to put thru a PEG Tube

wtgquick
  • By wtgquick · New reply December 4, 2009
  • 7 replies
  • My husband, age 83, recently had a PEG tube placed due to Alzheimer's disease causing the muscles in his tongue, uvula, and throat not working. So he cannot eat or drink anything. All of his medications ...

J-Tube

kayjay35
  • By kayjay35 · New reply June 6, 2009
  • 9 replies
  • My husband has a j-tube that is only used for nightime supplement as a result of 90% esophagus removal due to Barrett's. No cancer just high grade dysplasia. We cannot get a doctor to help us with any ...

Coping financially

MrBiggz
  • By MrBiggz · New reply February 10, 2009
  • 6 replies
  • Between the rising cost of fuel and food which my wife needs a lot of since she only has a little over 3 ft of small bowel. And I have to govern in the fact of living safely. How does one get by? I just ...

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