Tonight will have to be a short one.
Just to say that Pádraig got a new PEG, smaller and neater than the old one that was 2 1/2 years old. We spent the day in St Vincents Hospital in Dublin today, but the absolutely brilliant news is that he did not have to stay there. He is back home, has a sore throat from the endoscopy. When everything was done, we even got some spare parts – for some case and time in the future.
Hospi-Tales 
Reinhard, would it be possible to get rid of the PEG altogether one day? Padráig eats properly, doesn’t he?
Have a lovely day.
That’s the plan, Gisela. For the moment he still needs it for fluids (water). He can drink but it still takes a while and it’s not enough to keep him hydrated.
The really funny thing is that when we were asking how you would remove the PEG – would the hole close by itself, would it require stitches? – the people we asked weren’t really sure because it doesn’t really happen (that often). Imagine.