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Guts

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What Is the Food Pump For? Total Parentarial Nutrition

John had a tear in his intestine, which is normally something you can sew back up. The tissue around the area of the tear was so compromised that he couldn't withstand another surgery. Doctors told him to let his gut heal on its own and put it into an induced coma. He started eating again after four or five days but then got sicker - vomiting, chills, fever, spike.

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