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Re: Feeding Tube
At 02:30 PM 3/3/00 -0500, Allan Rosenberg wrote: >Can anyone describe for me their experience with a Feeding Tube. How it >works, what is fed into it,etc. > >Thanks, Allanros > >A dear friend here did not understand the implications of the feeding tube, that it is inserted surgically and is not removed when the patient wanted it out--in his case a few days. It was a horrible, depressing experience. Our advice is talk this over with your physician carefully..T.L. Seese Cg Gordon 71/21
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