Casual correlation of the postings seems to indicate a definite male bias in "toughing it out" without a PEG. Pete summed it up well: both refusal to be "sick" enough to need a feeding tube and the option to say NO to something that this Cancer "requires"
in the way of treatment. I still am not ready for the PEG despite having one now for two months. It was a source of pride not to "have needed a PEG" as though that somehow made me less of a victim to the cancer. Like David, I did not find OCF until well after treatment, so I did not have the advantage of advice from those who had gone before me. It's sink or swim without a PEG in terms of swallowing, eating, drinking etc and for those of us for whom "sink or swim" was our swimming instruction method, that was just additional nostalgic allure of simpler times and easier problems. So at least I have one less worry during my CyberKnife treatments
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