Barbara, I know how scary all this must seem to you. I thinl you are going to get started with treatment before I do. I am doing a practice run the 24th and then officially start treatments chemo and rad on the 30th. We can do this together. The port did not take 30 minutes to place, but did have an hour of recovery after that. The PEG is what has bothered me the post through this whole thing.