Fellow peggers - Nothing should spill from your peg when you open it. If the peg is properly installed and is operating properly, nothing should come pouring out. Are you eating in a reclined postition? You should be. Lean back, elevate your feet, relax your abdomen before you open the tube.

If you are standing, or sitting vertical, the inside end of your tube is "under water" (or worse). Peggers don't eat vertically at the table, peggers eat reclined in the Lazy Boy.

For the visual among us: Take a large zip lock bag and color a big, quarter-sized dot in the middle of the bag. Fill the bag half full of water. Blow it full of air and zip it shut. Thats your stomach and the dot is your peg. You gotta LEAN that bag back till the dot is at the top of the air pocket.

To complete this physics lesson, cut out the dot, and carefully lift the bag with both hands. Now, simulate a sneeze (viscously grip the bag with both hands and squeeze hard). I have compelted this maneuver with my peg - while pouring in strawberry ensure. The sneeze brought forth a lovely pink geyser that took nearly two hours to clean up. The moral..... opened peg tubes should belch, not pee. Be strong, Tom


SCC BOT, mets to neck, T4.
From 3/03: 10wks daily multi-drug chemo,
Then daily chemo with twice daily IMRT for 12 weeks - week on, week off. No surgery. New lung primary 12/07. Searching out tx options.