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Dr Christian:
Charlotte won’t be ready for chemo for another month, first her body needs to be prepared.
Chemotherapy is an indiscriminate cocktail of drugs, that will not only kill off what’s left of her bone marrow, it will also attack other cells, making her sick and forming ulcers in her mouth.
Dr Samantha Chippington:
We gave Charlotte a drink last night of barium and you can see on the screens the dark drink is actually in the colon, so that helps us to mark out where the colon is.
Dr Christian:
This line will allow charlotte to feed through her stomach when the sickness and ulcers are at their worst.
Dr Samantha Chippington:
I’m going to snare the wire to pull it back out of her mouth. And that’s the gastrostomy inserted.
Riding instructor:
Look for your line…two, three…leg on, leg on, leg on, now turn left.
Dr Christian:
Two days after her feeding line or peg has been fitted, Charlotte’s home and back on four feet.
Riding instructor:
Are you ready? Nice and tall…and canter…two, three…leg on.
Charlotte’s Mum V/O:
I think she’s been fantastic as to how she’s come to terms with it.
Riding instructor:
Go on, good girl.
Charlotte’s Mum V/O:
And she’s back doing all the normal sort of things that she did before she had it fitted. She’s back on her pony, and she can do everything that she did before and it doesn’t restrict her from doing anything else.
Charlotte:
It’s not that difficult, as long as you remember that after each thing you put in you clamp the clamp shut, otherwise it all comes rushing back up the tube.
Charlotte’s Mum:
Well done, good girl.
Charlotte:
It feels quite funny and you can feel it going in. It’s just strange, because it feels like, it feels cold sometimes but it also feels really tingly, and just weird.
This video explains the process Charlotte went through in order to have a feeding tube inserted into her stomach. The feeding tube was required to ensure that Charlotte didn’t miss out on nourishment when she was too ill to swallow food, and is a common procedure required for a number of different operations.
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i have swelling to my hip and hell of a lot of pain, but the doctors are saying its an abcess of only 5mm can you please tell me how to get rid of it?
Asked on 1 Dec 2011 19:18 by louise
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Our family also watched the show about Charlotte and we would very much like to know that she is okay and doing well. An update would be great as I am told the show was filmed 2 years back. Not to be nosey, but the show made us feel such empathy for Charlotte and she is a very brave little girl. She should start her own website where people can check up and make sure she's okay, or help if she isn't. Just a suggestion. thank you.
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On last nights show a young lady had an issue with a valve which closes off the wind-pipe from the stomach. I have a similar issue and several years ago I was told that I would be an operation to resolve the problem, which was actally arranged, but cancelled by the hospital at the last minute as the surgeon was going to be otherwise enganged at the specified time (Golf no doubt). I then moved to another part of the country and now that I am considerably older and the NHS is cutting back, I have been told that it is unlikely that it would now be approved. If you could tell me what medication was prescribed, I could then ask my GP about it's suitability for may case. Many thanks Jeff
Asked on 12 Jul 2011 16:32 by Jeff
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where can i see the full story?
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I think Charlotte was really brave doing that abd not crying or nothing x she is really brave
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I feel really sorry for Charlotte; I thought my case was bad as I was only 11 when I had Chemotherapy! Let me tell you, the feeding tube is horrible (well, it was for me!) and the sickness and operations and overall 'unwell-ness'. I hate it when people wish they were ill. I knew some people who used to say "You're so lucky!" I get really mad at people like that because a bone marrow transplant is a life-threatening ordeal. I'm 13 now, and I had Leukaemia when I was younger.
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how can i help?
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HOW HIS CHARLOTTE GETTING ON AFTER THE SHOW
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