Chocolate Dessert Recipe for Tube Feeders

If you are tube feeder craving something tasty, try this marvelous recipe my sister came up w for a chocolate dessert you can enjoy with your whole family. It’s made with tofu, melts in your mouth, is good for you, and tastes amazing. Healthy stuff for your family and some taste and texture for your [...]

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More Traveling with Your Feeding Tube

I’ve combined two steps for traveling together on this post. My other recommendations are broken down into three previous posts.
This is so crucial I probably should have begun with this post. Take a note from your doctor on official stationary or Rx form verifying you are a tube feeder. The enteral system looks like a [...]

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Traveling With Your Feeding Tube, More Advice

More travel advice for the tube feeder
What do you absolutely have to have before you can leave home? A travel bag, a back up tube system, and note from you doctor. Let’s deal with the back up system first.
Stuff happens at the most inopportune times. It’s a rule of life. Plastic becomes brittle. Valve [...]

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If you ignored my previous post and bought a dream flight ticket anyway, good for you. But, as it gets closer to departure day, you’d better answer some questions to avoid disaster later. Will your food travel with you? At a minimum of five cans a day, more if you’re walking around being touristy, you’ll [...]

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Come Fly w Me and My Feeding Tube

The following posts will deal with travel advice for tube feeders for both domestic and overseas flights. The posts were prompted by a reader who asked this question: can my friend fly to Italy after having a feeding tube inserted. And can she go just two to three weeks after surgery? Her doctors say if [...]

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Caringbridge.org A compassionate use of technology

It’s said that every evil produces a good, that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Certainly my discovery of Caring Bridge is not equal to the death of my former student, but it is a good thing to come from that tragic loss. Because www.Caringbridge.org connects families and friends, both close and distant, [...]

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Alcohol Raises Your Risk, Ladies

During my first marriage, which lasted thirty-eight years, my husband and I hardly went a night without at least two, maybe even four drinks, along with more cigarettes than I could even count. Although I’ve reduced my alcohol intake from at fourteen drinks a week to one drink a week or less, it was too [...]

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Preventing new esophageal tumors

Because esophageal cancer has a high rate of return during the first two years after treatment, it might be useful to know that black raspberries seem to be a deterrent to tumors. I’m going to find some black raspberry powder today. What can it hurt.
January 2009
Researchers from the Ohio State Comprehensive Cancer Center fed rats [...]

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More Advice on Your Feeding Tube

     The referral stats on my blog have so many questions about feeding tubes and how life is with them. Even though I’ve written a couple of feeding tube entries, I’m going to do another and address some these questions.
     Most important to remember is, when your doctor says you need a feeding tube, [...]

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Bonus Side effects of Hyerbaric Diving

In case you’re new to my blog, or you’re a loyal reader who’s lost the thread of continuity because I’m not timely about blogging, I should probably remind you why I opted for hyperbaric treatment. It was supposed to prevent necrosis, rotting of the bone from radiation and implants done too soon. I’ve already covered [...]

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