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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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