Potentially dangerous ground

What's really getting me here, is that this woman has been without food and water for 3+days. It's my understanding that surgery would be needed to re-insert the feeding tube. Surgery on it's own face is dangerous...let alone for someone who is obviously in her weakened physical condition.

Further, I wonder how the body re-adjusts to suddenly getting food and water again. How can these two things be anything less than 'mighty' dangerous and have the ability to affect her very survival from these procedures alone.

plus the opening from the previous tube has almost surely not healed over.

although, since she is awake, she would be anesthetized. They use a gastroscope, a tube about an inch in diameter with a light source and fiber optics viewing device in the end, passed down her throat and into her stomach. A new stab wound is made in her belly, and the tube passed. The gastroscope is used to confirm placement into the stomach, a balloon is inflated at the end of the tube to keep it in position, and the gastroscope is withdrawn. Complications can include damage to adjacent organs and structures, bleeding, and infection, plus complications from the anesthesia, itself. She will typically be allowed to heal for one or two full days before tube feedings are again attempted.

Going without food for several days is no big deal, even several days prior to surgery. Going without fluids may be something else again, and my guess is that IV fluids would be instituted prior to surgery.

Let's hope the Federal judge tells the right wing to go pound sand and that she doesn't have to endure another surgery. Although she can't interpret anything as either pleasure or pain, she is still capable of feeling it.