MST,

My experience was the opposite of my friend David's. As long as he's getting the calories & nutrition, then he can opt for no Peg, but I stubbornly waited too long to say yes to it, and I (again stubbornly) still didn't use it for anything but meds. I wanted to Eat with a capital E and be closer to "normal" (one of my personal bits of denial), but it was so painful that it became nearly impossible.

I ended up in the hospital with emergency surgery for a twisted and gangrenous colon, 6 to 8 rad treatments short of the what my RO wanted me to have. I was in-patient for a month as I was severely undernourished among other problems.

So I'm not saying that what happened to me will happen to everyone, because it doesn't. David is just one example of that among many, but please encourage him to say "yes" to the Peg if he needs it.

Lani