Sarah,
I assume that your sister is working with a speech pathologist or nutritionist...someone who was in charge of instructing her on the use of the PEG tube and is conscious of how many calories she is getting from the 5 feedings. I did 4 feedings per day for a total of approx. 2000 calories and I lost about 20 lbs. I was slender to begin with and got pretty skinny there for a while. However I was able to get all of the nutrition that I needed from the tube feedings when I was unable to swallow.

I hope that this is helpful.

Danny G.

Stage IV Base of Tongue SCC
Diagnosed July 1, 2002, chemo and radiation treatments completed beginning of Sept/02.