Jon,

If you have plans to have a mediport put in, please consider having the PEG put in as well during the same surgery. No harm done if you don't need it, but chances are about week three you will start having pain that is very tough and eating will become a chore. Most people here required major pain medications such as morphine and fentanyl during the last couple of weeks of treatment and the first few afterwards.

Getting the PEG tube as an afterthought will be harder as your body is depleted from the chemo/radiation treatments so one more assault will be very hard. You can work with both the PEG tube and the mediport and no one will be the wiser.

Wishing you luck slugging thru all these decisions...when we tell you what we think, we also know that nothing about this is easy.

Deb