The swelling of my new "made from recycled materials" tongue is not expected to go down for four-six weeks, so I received a second PEG tube (In-hospital feeding was with pumps and a nasogastric tube, which was nowhere near as uncomfortable as I had been led to believe).

Quite different from my first PEG -- The new one was not installed using an endoscopic tool, but with local anesthetic and X-ray -- The new one is much smaller in diameter (inside the body) than the old one was, which means I have to use the plunger on the syringe to force each syringe-ful of "food" through the PEG -- With the old one, I could just sit upright in front of TV or window and let gravity do the work.