Feeding tube

[JamesW]

Thanks everyone for your kind messages 🥰

[WheelsOfSteel]

Now you can go into a restaurant and order steak, chips, a blender and a funnel

[JamesW]

Now you can go into a restaurant and order steak, chips, a blender and a funnel

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ellie]

JamesW All healed nicely and tube behaving? xx

[JamesW]

JamesW All healed nicely and tube behaving? xx

Everything is fine, but I did manage to get a nice little visitor in the wound by the name of staphylococcus. Just halfway through some antibiotics….trying to evict him as we speak 😅😅😅😘😘😘

[Ellie]

JamesW 😬 MRSA? 😘

[JamesW]

JamesW 😬 MRSA? 😘

Nothing that serious yet I hope but left untreated it can also cause sepsis 😳😳😳

Just a common post-op bacteria in exudate (30% occurrence apparently)…… if bits start dropping off me I will go back to the surgery 👍😅 xxx

[Piglet]

JamesW oh no! Wishing you a speedy recovery and your unwelcome visitor takes a hike😕xx

[JamesW]

JamesW oh no! Wishing you a speedy recovery and your unwelcome visitor takes a hike😕xx

Thanks Piglet 😊😊😊

[Ellie]

JamesW At least you were swabbed and are obvs taking the most appropriate meds.

Wishing you well 😘😘

[Claireflo]

Hope the antibiotics clear it up soon JamesW

[TinyLady]

JamesW I hope your unwanted visitor is soon evicted! Nothing more annoying when everything seems to be healing well x

[JamesW]

Thanks all, seems to be clearing up well now xx

[Arcadian]

Thanks everybody for sharing thoughts and experiences around this.
It's an issue I'm struggling with if the time comes where a feeding tube is recommended.

I can get my head around accepting a colostomy / stoma for a long-term unrelated illness, because I'm aware of the advantages and potential quality of life advantages.

My uncertainties around a feeding tube relate to some pre-MND diagnosis diaphragm and stomach problems (Crohn's and hiatus-hernia), regarding the practicalities around that, together with the psychological impact.

I did see this useful decision aid link in Thumbprint Magazine though:-

https://www.gastrostomychoice.co.uk