The chemo seems to have passed fairly uneventfully and i was scheduled for an Ivor Lewis back in April 2018 which duly went ahead. Shortly afterwards however things started to go a bit wrong. Both surgical wounds became infected and dehisced with the one to my abdomen leaving a round hole the size of a dinner plate on my stomach and me enjoying an extended stay in the ICU for nearly three weeks as they fought to control the sepsis. After about three months I was able to go home and I returned to work full time in September.
Treatment of the wound is ongoing, the "hole" has shrunk to about tea plate size and is about 90% skinned over but I still need dressing changes twice a week and probably will still do for several weeks to come before it is fully healed.
So far, so good i hear you say and i would be tempted to agree with you but sadly just before Christmas i was newly diagnosed with a signet ring adenocarcinomka in my stomach which not to put too fine a point on it is very bad news. It is metastacising and has started to show up in nearby lymph nodes and in the vicinity of the pancreas. I am told that further surgery is no longer an option so the rigours of chemotherapy look to be my only option.
From my to now fairly modest research, it would seem that this particular type of carcinoma is highly malignant, hard to spot and very rare.
I have decided not to buy any season tickets. 
