Bloop

JUST SAY NO. You can get through this TX without one. It is not easy but it can be done. While DavidCPA must be more circumspect as an administrator, I openly advocate declining the elective procedure of a PEG.
As far as I can tell, I am the one and only poster here who has done it both ways (a full ten weeks of radiation and chemo without a PEG, then had a recurrence which required surgery which made it impossible for me to swallow so PEG put in hospital or else they would not discharge me).
While your doctors and most everyone will pressure you into getting some kind of feeding tube, just remember it can be done without one. Whether you want to do it the hard way is a personal decision. What is most troublesome is that if your PEG gets any problem, Interventional Radiology does no followup since the assumption is that it's no big deal. Yours is not the only post of PEG problems and pains.
That said, mine is very distinctly a minority view on OCF and to avoid the usual flood of accusatory replies, let me concede that Brian has convinced me that the majority of OCF posters simply could not have done what I, David, and others did. I'm glad they had their life preserver, but I preferred to swim.
charm