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Category: Anthony
Anthony Bissell
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Anthony reached his goal of 50cc/hour via his J-tube at 7:00am this morning! So far he is tolerating it well. So, discharge is planned for this afternoon. We will continue with the TPN at home, until we are sure he will do OK with the J-tube feedings. The resident just came in and removed Anthony’s…
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We left off with Anthony being discharged Tuesday, February 8th with a goal of gradually increasing his J-tube feedings to 50cc/hour. This was not going well. He was barely tolerating 20cc an hour. On Wednesday night I had to shut off the feedings due to retching and gagging. Things were just not moving properly in…
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Apologies for the delay in updating. I’ve been trying to catch up on life after hospitalization. Anthony was discharged from the hospital Tuesday evening, that is the good news. However, he is having trouble tolerating feedings via the j-tube. The doctors were trying to increase his feedings to the goal of 50cc/hour in order to…
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We were hoping that Anthony would come home today, but this morning, he had a lot of drainage around his J-tube. The drainage looked like formula, so the doctors had to hold his feedings and do a radiology study to check the placement of the tube. It took half the day to get this test…
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Anthony had a good night and is now up to 30cc/hour of Peptamen via his new J-tube. I would guess that he will come home tomorrow if everything continues to go as planned. Tomorrow will be a busy day changing the dressing, maybe the tubes. Not sure if the current tubes are the same type…