My first PEG was done in outpatient surgery in 2005 -- Wheeled me in, knocked me out and put it in with an endoscope.

For the second one this year, I was already in hospital, so an aide and I walked down to radiation (first PEG was done by Gastro Doc), they gave me a local, and the Doc put it in using X-Ray (or Fluoroscope, not sure which -- If he had turned the screen a little, I could have watched it) and then they gurneyed me back to my room.

I found both of them to be a piece of cake, esp compared to the rest of the hacking and slashing and microwaving that I was enduring <grinz>, with the second one being easier.

Christine, I am back to 100 -- I took a can to bed the other night and when the 'food's all gone alarm woke me up, the bed and I were drenched in sweat!! I dunno what that was all about -- I think I'll try two cans tonight and see how that goes -- I normally read for a few hours in bed anyway.