 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I lost over 60 lbs. in a month didn't have a PEG and didn't get a PEG. Doctor didn't like it but so what, I survived anyway.
I was eating solid food relatively early in my recovery and I credit my decision not to PEG for this.
This is not to try to talk you out it - for many the PEG is a necessity. In a balanced world some of us got by fine without one and you should hear both sides. It took a lot discipline (and suffering) to survive without one, swallowing water and food in a raw, blistered and damaged throat is not for the faint of heart.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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