Hello fellow peg users, Like Jim, I've lived on mine for over three years now. I too started out with a 'pig tail' type tube, but I grew weary of taping it up and keeping it out of the way. I tried several different styles. I have gone to a tube-less peg called a Mic-Key.

This device is a nearly flat button with a small port on its edge, and another on its top. The side one is used to inflate the baloon inside the stomach. The top one is for chow. I have a tube that slides onto my syringe one one end, and clicks into the top of the MicKey at the other. The peg has a one way valve that keeps it shut until the end of the feeding tube is inserted and twisted into place. When done, unplug the tube, insert the attached plug and you are gone. I can scrub the tube, the syringe and all the fittings in the sink. Nothing to tape up, or fool with. The whole device, when closed, sticks barely one half inch above my skin and is smaller than the end of my thumb. It is truly the only way to go with peg tubes (for me anyway).

Remember folks, we peg users can always dominate conversation at the supper table!! And, we have the perfect excuse to NOT help with dishes!! Silver Linings!!! Be strong. Tom