HI Cyn, how is Rick doing?

pepebcn
pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
in Colorectal Cancer #1
Hugs to both.

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  • LivinginNH
    LivinginNH Member Posts: 1,456 Member
    #2
    Hi, thank you for asking
    Hi, thank you for asking about him. I just arrived back at the hospital. He's currently scheduled for the stent procedure at 3:00pm. He's in some pain, so I hope this operation helps to clear things up. I also just found out that a nurse will be coming to the house for three days after he goes home to hook up a nutritional IV bag. She's also going to teach us how to access his port so that we can do this after the three days. He's also scheduled to start a trial drug next week, but we have to first see if the stent procedure worked.

    Hugs,
    Cyn
  • smokeyjoe
    smokeyjoe Member Posts: 1,425 Member
    #3
    LivinginNH said:

    Hi, thank you for asking
    Hi, thank you for asking about him. I just arrived back at the hospital. He's currently scheduled for the stent procedure at 3:00pm. He's in some pain, so I hope this operation helps to clear things up. I also just found out that a nurse will be coming to the house for three days after he goes home to hook up a nutritional IV bag. She's also going to teach us how to access his port so that we can do this after the three days. He's also scheduled to start a trial drug next week, but we have to first see if the stent procedure worked.

    Hugs,
    Cyn

    I got nutrition for several
    I got nutrition for several weeks via a PICC line in my arm, it was fed through my upper arm into my chest somehow, they did it under a portable ultrasound x-ray machine, it was amazing I didn't even leave my hospital bed, they brought the screen etc. to my room. I can't imagine it being done via a port, but they may be giving him something different. I had like 3 different bags each contained some different nutrient supplement, one whitish looking bag was just some kind of fat!!! What I got was TPN, and the pharmacy people were constantly coming up and checking out how it was running too.
  • LivinginNH
    LivinginNH Member Posts: 1,456 Member
    #4
    smokeyjoe said:

    I got nutrition for several
    I got nutrition for several weeks via a PICC line in my arm, it was fed through my upper arm into my chest somehow, they did it under a portable ultrasound x-ray machine, it was amazing I didn't even leave my hospital bed, they brought the screen etc. to my room. I can't imagine it being done via a port, but they may be giving him something different. I had like 3 different bags each contained some different nutrient supplement, one whitish looking bag was just some kind of fat!!! What I got was TPN, and the pharmacy people were constantly coming up and checking out how it was running too.

    Hi, I too was surprised that
    Hi, I too was surprised that the milky white bag of fluid was going directly into the port. I really hope that he'll be on solid food soon so that I don't have to access the port. He was just brought down to surgery, so now I wait.
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #5
    LivinginNH said:

    Hi, I too was surprised that
    Hi, I too was surprised that the milky white bag of fluid was going directly into the port. I really hope that he'll be on solid food soon so that I don't have to access the port. He was just brought down to surgery, so now I wait.

    Please tell him l think in him so often and will be praying
    For the success of the stent.
    Hugs to both.
  • Annabelle41415
    Annabelle41415 Member Posts: 6,742 Member
    #6
    LivinginNH said:

    Hi, I too was surprised that
    Hi, I too was surprised that the milky white bag of fluid was going directly into the port. I really hope that he'll be on solid food soon so that I don't have to access the port. He was just brought down to surgery, so now I wait.

    Surgery
    Wishing and hoping for a great surgery. Keep us updated.

    Kim
  • steved
    steved Member Posts: 834 Member
    #7
    Thoughts with you
    And fingers crossed hoping it sorts a lot of his problems. Yeah, he might need of nutrition for a bit but just think of it as a short step in his recovery.

    Let us know how it goes,
    Steve

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