Surgeries Completed

Both surgeries have been completed and have been deemed successful. He know has two tubes protruding from his lower belly region. I thought about posting a picture, but instead, I will let your imaginations run wild.

Our house looks more and more like a hospital room every day. There is a wheel chair and a walker. There are day and night urine bags. There are diapers, bed pads and disposable bed pads. Next to the bed is a hospital table. Now we have added one of those beautiful poles that bags hang from, complete with a pump. We have 5 cases of high calorie liquid food and one case of syringes. We have 40 iv type bags with a special "Y" closure.

Feedings are fairly easy. You always begin a feeding with 60 milliliters of water injected with a syringe into the stomach. Then, you can either directly inject a can of food and follow with water, once again, or hook up to the pump. When using the pump, you fill a bag with two or three cans of food, thread the pump, much like a sewing machine and hook it up to the stomach tube. It takes about 3 hours for each can to drip into the stomach.

The catheter pretty much works the same as the old one. Once he gets past all the pain he is in, I think he will find out that he likes the new placement.

The tricky part will be getting him dressed. One tube is directly above the pant line and the other right below. Hopefully this will be the only tricky part. I will do my very best not to hook the wrong tube into the wrong tool. I don't want to be feeding his bladder.

Until later,
Ann and Dennis

Until later,
Ann and Dennis