Three weeks after my op I am at home getting used to the new eating regime and the inconvenience of hot flushes due to dumping syndrome. I am going for walks, building up the distance gradually day by day. I am up to 1.5 miles now less than two weeks after being discharged. I am told that my speedy recovery is due to my good physical shape going into surgery. It won’t be as rapid for older or less fit individuals. The…
It was certainly a shock when the surgeon told me what the operation entailed: two large incisions and collapsing one lung! But my experience was not as bad as I had feared.
I had an epidural inserted before the general anaesthetic, which meant when I awoke I had no wound pain. What I did have was a sore throat and shoulder. The shoulder pain was referred pain from the work they had done on the diaphragm. A TENS machine…
Three 3 week cycles of ECX Chemo (with carboplatin replacing the more usual cisplatin to protect my already poor hearing) throughout November and into the New Year.
After the first cycle my white cell count was too low to embark on a further cycle without a week's rest. It was low again after the second cycle but they went ahead with he next cycle but I had daily injections to stimulate my white cell could and boost…
slight difficulty in swallowing on two occasions while on holiday last summer. Mentioned it to my GP in passing, some weeks later. His response was "we'd better get that checked out"
2 weeks later I had a gastroscopy and a specialist nurse told my wife and I that there was a tumour in my oesophagus and that It was most probably cancer, but this would be confirmed after tha biopsy taken had been examined…
