My biggest question?? What are the chances of my husband ending up on a feeding tube? Does this happen to most? Not sure what a peg is? I am determined to keep his weight up even though he lost 20 pounds (from stress and healthy eating) that he always wanted to. After removal of right vocal cord he has had no problem eating, thankfully. Wasn't really fair when he packed for our cruise in Dec that his problem was his clothes being too big when I had lost 17 pounds and still wondered if mine would fit after 10 days of cruising, I love to eat!! He has felt great till the neck dissection so other than the loss of some of his voice he just doesn't seem sick. Thankfully we have found the Hope Lodge in Minneapolis where we can stay rather than commute 3 hours daily for radiation. It is a wonderful place but reality still hasn't hit us yet, we don't feel like we belong there. It seems more like a get-away from work, spending time together, eating out and doing a few dr. oppointments. Maybe it will always seem so surreal. Without doing chemo along with radiation will radiation alone be a little more tolerable?