Re: Bakers Tube
From: Lynn (shopgirl63vh@yahoo.com)
Tue Jul 15 16:13:05 2003
At Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Pam Markford wrote:
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>Hello everyone! I just got on for a quick moment this am. I am so very
>glad that I did. I don't want to sound like I am telling anyone what to
>do or trying to be very negative. I so feel very strongely about this
>BAKER tube buisiness though! I have been there, done that as the saying
>goes and honestly, I NEVER EVER want to go through that again! If this
>is the same tube you are talking about it went from the nasogastric
>track down though the stomach all the way to the rectum like 27 feet.
>They left in me at least seven days along with a nasogric tube in the
>other nostril and I had to have a central IV line to have TPN(my feeding
>through an IV line) for nine days. I would strongely suggest you ask
>your doctor many, many more questions about the surgery he is proposing.
>Yes, you can get through it if you really have NO other choices but I
>would exhaust my choices first. I will pray for you and that you will
>find another choice with less recovery. I hope you don't mind the
>opinion of someone who has been there and doesn't want to go back. I
>would also like to suggest that if the Bakers tube is your only choice
>to make sure that your surgeon is a Gasto surgeon! Take care of yourself
>and remember we are all here to help each other.
>
>--
>In Loving Friendship, Pam Markford PJtweetyRN@aol.com
>
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Hi Pam,
I am writing this because my mother is an 80 year old woman and has had a baker's tube put into her 4 days ago.
She went in for a colon cancer operation on July 1st and had a successful operation.
Then they gave her an O.D. of morphine and this caused Ileus (adaynamic) then 5 days later we are told she has
adhesions in the bowel-- they only thing he could do for her was a bakers tube-- she also does have the ng tube
up her nose and into the stomach as well.
She has been in the hospital for 2 weeks today and the tube wont be coming out until Friday or Saturday
My question for you is this-- Do they take it out all at one time or slowly over a period of time?
The poor dear just cant take too much more,
Thank you for a responce to this asap----God Bless Lynn