Hi David - well, JC has already had his surgery and is starting radiation tomorrow and we had the PEG placed in advance so that when it gets too tough for him to eat there should be no problems! he is still having discomfort with it and a trip to the hospital happened on saturday night - when i went to change the bandage around it there was alot of blood, so off to the hospital we went - seems as tho he had a hematoma under it and that is what all the blood was about. tho it has stopped draining, the discomfort still remains - not to mention the frustration of all of this. so we have the PEG in place way ahead of time also....