So I had 'lap' pouch surgery to put the pouch back up on the wall exactly a week ago. Near miracle, the horrible lower back/hip/sacroilac pain is all but gone. Not counting the 'surgical pain' from all the work done in there and the 'pull' on the suture lines holding up the pouch, things aren't so bad.
So when I put the tube in and it finally went in strait after all these years, I didn't think much about the 'hitch' or hook that I felt pulling the tube out. When it happened again I wrote it off to swelling (of the valve).
But I just intubated and the one of the holes of the tube got hooked deep in the valve and wouldn't let go. It took a couple of yanks and a bit of finessing to finally get it to let go.
I remembered that this was a problem I had had before the pouch dropped. When they rebuilt the valve, a couple of staples popped out early on and the valve opened up like a trumpet. Somehow the holes get hooked on part of it and 'bite'.
I guess that there is no perfect cure. There is always a trade-off.
Now the valve is hurting and bleeding because I hooked it.
Never a dull moment.
Sharon
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