I'm glad to hear that everything seems to be working out Jim. From the sound of things you do not need a PEG at this point as you are eating well and your weight loss fairly minimal (I lost 70lbs).

My original thought was you were swallowing blood and that was making you sick as this had happened to me. I had several episodes where the area of my necrotic lesion in my mouth would ooze this thick, black, partially clotted blood that looked kind of like the black venom stuff in Spiderman 3. It was pretty disgusting.

Keep the chin up and be well my friend

Eric

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