Hi Taylorcat
I'm so sorry things have got to that stage with your mum. Like the others, I'm not sure what 'comfort feeding'entails.
PEG feeding is something that is so difficult to decide. In my experience, the decision leaves feelings of guily whatever decision you come to.
If you decide to go ahead with it, you feel guilty because you are prolonging life artificially when all quality is gone. If you decide against, you always wonder if there was the remote possibility that the patient could have recovered, even though you know realistically that that could not have happened.
Helen's right, though, once a PEG is inserted, it's unlikely to be removed.
I hope you don't have to make this decision. I made it for my mum (I decided against, but she was 91, and did not wish to live). I dread havingto make it for my darling husband.
Please let us know how you get on, I'll be thinking of you.
Love,