Finished 5 weeks of radiation and chemo. Husband has been using PEG for 1 1/2 weeks now. Only met with swallowing therapist once and was given exercises for swallowing and told to swallow at least 20 bites. He has fallen short on 20 bites, sometimes only 6 or 10 and missed a couple days. Yesterday I found him gagging up the peaches. He is convinced they are going down fine and his swallowing is fine and that all food gags him but I wonder why he has such trouble getting things down and keeping them down. (not throwing up after using tube). Could this be a start of losing the abilty to swallow? I can only nag and push so much. I plan on calling the therapist tomorrow without him knowing and let her request an appointment and hopefully a swallowing test. Maybe I am wrong but don't want him to have issues forever with swallowing.