My RO told me at the first visit that my "job" was going to be to keep eating. His exact words were: "It will be a job, because there will be nothing pleasurable about it." He said he did not want me to become dehydrated, because then he would have to put me in the hospital to rehydrate me. He also said he did not want to put a feeding tube in because a lot of patients become too dependent on the feeding tube and then have problems swallowing even after the radiation is done. I told him I did not have a problem having a PEG. He didn't respond to that. Do most people end up with a feeding tube?