David

I agree that the PEG Dialogue is much more in keeping with the OCF spirit than the Martial term of war. What we need is more understanding of the deeply personal meanings we each give to the accouterments of oral cancer TX.
What was an eye opener for me was when one poster threw in the example of the oral cancer patients here who either forego Pain pills or take them very sparingly. Were they "heroes" for suffering thru what I "patched" over? When these few souls post their reluctance, they are as assailed for contravening the conventional wisdom as I was for my "Just say NO" stance on Pegs. Well meaning posters chime in that there is low probability of addiction, how pain can hinder healing, and are as incredulous that not doing drugs in this context can be meaningful to anyone. Yet I do not doubt that for them, surviving TX without narcotics is important somehow.
I'm as guilty as anyone in urging maximum medication and unrepentant but then I was taking many of these drugs for recreational purposes back in the day anyway.
Sometimes in my more lucid moments, I reread old posts of the "Peg Wars" and realize that to an outside observer, this "war" must look like the inter-Liputian quarrel between the Big-Endians (those who broke their eggs at the larger end) and Little-Endians of Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift.
Charm