Everyone responds to things differently, and every treatment plan is as individual as we are biologically different from each other - yielding vastly different outcomes and collateral damage for all. Gross generalizations give beginners a picture, but you are definitely someone that had an experience that no one would argue is less than extreme. I don't see how anyone could think that you could even drink let alone eat without a PEG. This is a valuable point to all those who argue in the PEG war debate here, that one size does not fit all, and that posts should reflect our own experiences, and not insinuate that others experiences will be anything like ours. They may draw "possibilities" from our experience when planning for theirs, but in the end, their experience will be just that... theirs.