7 weeks of hell

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My husband was told in December he had stomach cancer, and it was in operable, but after 9 weeks of chemo the tumor had shrunk so much surgery went ahead on the 19th April 2010. The operation went well, but he suffered respiratory failure due to a chest infection and taken to intensive care.  After 10 very hard days he went back to high dependency ward waiting to have a brocoscopy to clear the infection.  This was done 154th May 2010 and after 6 hours was back in ICU ventelated and sedated.  He has just left ICU after 26 days.

We have since been told that the cancer was only in the stomach and all is okay.

If you read this , and are affected by stomach cance please be strong and never give up.

Poppet

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Really good news, take care both.

    Vee.xx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    That is wonderful news after all that you have been through. Wishing you both all the very best for the future.

                      Take care,

                                 Love lizzie xx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Just read your news, which is wonderful. Hope your husband makes a full recovery. We have been down a similar route but thank God without the complications that you experienced. Wishing you all the best.

    AliC x

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi All

    Thank you for all your comments and hope that you find some help from my blog.. Just an update on my husband.

    He came out of hospital on 16th June 2010 and I have to say it has not been easy, he was at first very weak after been in bed for nearly 9 weeks but we have now got hime moving.  He takes the dogs out for short walks, and tries to help in the home. We had great shouts of joy from our grandaughter last week , when he sat down on a rug for a picnic and managed to get up on his own, the whole park heard her.

    Eating is the biggest problem with the sick feeling and bloating afterwards, we can not pin it down to anything it happens with things that he has had before with no reaction.

    Back to see his consultant late September, but as of now the are very pleased, and we are managing to maintain his weight.

    Poppet

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    it makes good reading this does as my son who is only 16 has stomach cancer, he hasnt been able to eat for months and has just had his first session of chemo and would you belive it that he is now eating again and one happy lad he is to we go back on wed for his second session of chemo that is 5 days long and all we hope for is that it does shrink the cancer and he can have the op to remove it and hopefully a full recovery