Brian,
You are lucky you live in a country where the peg is available freely. In New Delhi, where I live there is just ONE importer who imports the pegs only if he has collected a good deal of purchasers and paid up in advance.Besides the unavailibilty - they are so expensive that only the people with money can afford to change the tube as and when they want. The paients who can barely make end meet have a raw deal and one feels miserable just looking at them.

I am on the peg and have been so for over four years as I have no food passage ( it closed down due to a fistula that occured because of an overdose of radiation) - but to be honest - I have become so used to it that it no longer bothers me and even feeding through the tube over the last four years - I have been mantaining a steady weight just what the doctors want. I have posetd my story in survivor stories and would be glad if you would go through it as I recieved a message from Carol, who told me about you and wanted to know a few answers to my story.
Regards.
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Ananth - cancer of the larynx - final stage diagnosed April 2000/declared cancer free january 2004. Lead a normal life with my voice box intact as it was before I got the illness - with only the peg and the temprory stoma button put into my tracheostomy.