Oesophagectomy tomorrow!

Thankyou 

Will be thinking of you ! It’s just another part of the journey !!

we should get t-shirts made!! you couldnt write this stuff, x

The very best of luck to you. Like yourself, I had to go into hospital at 3pm the day before my Ivor Lewis and I can still remember the mixed emotions I felt beforehand. Nervousness (obviously!) combined with the desire to have the cancer removed and worry about what life afterwards would be like. That was nearly 21 months ago. You have a long road of recovery ahead but you’re about to take a significant step along it. CB

laddo exactly what CB says, he was invaluable about setting my expectations, a lot of my experience in hospital was morphine fed! but it is the journey afterwards, there is no rushing it, and i look back at this time last year not eating, op not due until january (not ivor lewis), trying to get weight on, i had and am still having counselling for the breast cancer, then this lovely little bugger, and have a macmillan cancer buddy, so reach out as and when you need to, and this family is amazing. all the best, CB said to me, you will be out of it all, just prepare for when you wake up.  keep us updated, i was 57, now 58, changes your outlook on most things, and i definately had good and awful days, its almost a blur now, but eating out again, even if i have sides for a main, is something i pinch myself doing, take care x

my husband struggled with the cancer coming back, so me being able to talk, rant cry on here was invaluable x

jules

Hi. Good luck. Get yourself through it.

Post op, do breathing exercises and try to get mobile. 

Im sure you'll be fine. And don't worry about the stuff the wife's clearing out. 

Good Luck ! You’ll be in excellent hands and I’m sure all will go as planned .

As someone has already said , it’s another part of this rollercoaster of a journey .

Best wishes 

J 

I hope the op has gone well? My husbands op is booked in on 8th Dec. We're naturally very nervous but looking forward to getting rid of the tumour before it can spread. I imagine you felt the same.