David - my son's cancer team also told us at the diagnosis that a peg would be likely but then after they all got together with us, (including my nurse friend and my daughter) they left it up to Paul and he emphatically didn't want one. As treatment went on and it got more and more difficult to eat, I worried because he wasn't taking in enough nourishment no matter what I fixed - until finally I told him if he didn't eat something, right then, I was going to call the doctor and make an appointment to get him a PEG!! That really got him eating again and I was glad that I had that in my arsenal of "encouragement" weapons! Now, I still wonder, though if the Peg may not have made life easier for him. The nasal tube post tx sounds like a life saver to me.