 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | We've been down this road before but here goes. I didn't get a PEG. I only had to be hospitalized twice in the ER for rehydration. I dropped over 60 lbs and slowed the healing process. I had to take huge doses of narcotics just to sip water and essentially "eat" the same stuff they put in the PEG tube. Of course either I couldn't taste anything anyway - or worse yet, it tasted like crap. Would I go PEGless again, I honestly can't say.
I am over three years post Tx now and everything is working fine.
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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