Stoj, my husband had his PEG put in as preparation for surgery on May 15. I remember the dat eclearly because it was 2 days after we got married. They prepped him for partial glossectomy by inserting trach and PEG. Then the surgeon came in, looked at his tonugue and said the cancer had spread too far since the CT scan 2 weeks previously. He would have had to remove the whole tongue and the larynx. So he cancelled the surgery and we switched to rad/chemo. He did not actually start using the PEG until early July. He had it removed 9-1-06. So the short story is 2 1/2 months, used it for 1 month. By the way, they left the trach in for a week until one of the doctors overrode the others and insisted it be removed. Thank goodness! That was the worst part of my caring for him. Every time I had to clean it, I would cry. I couldn't help it.