Wide local excison eating

Hi SuzieQ28,

Sorry to hear your are struggling with your swallowing.  My swallowing has been effected twice, once during my cancer treatment (4 years ago) and this October (2004) when I was not allowed to eat or drink for 10 days.  During my first bout I was fitted with a peg tube, this was a life saver for me and only wished I had still had it fitted in October.  Ask your team about getting a peg tube fitted, it will allow you to have liquid food fed straight to your stomach. 

I hope this is helpful.

Live life, love life.

Hi SuzieQ28

Sorry to hear that you are struggling with eating at the moment. The best thing that you can have at the moment is the drink supplement recommended by your dietician e.g. Fortisip, Ensure etc as it has all the necessary nutrients in it.

You can manage on this for quite some time without  having any other food as long as you have enough of them. I was recommended 6 a day when I was on an NG tube. When the swelling does go down then you can try smoothies with things pureed in it such as banana, avocado etc.

Hope things calm down for you soon but unfortunately patience is the key.

Best wishes

Lyn

Hi Lyn, 

I haven’t met with a dietician at all! I’ll contact the hospital and ask about it! Luckily it’s improved a little today and I can take some sips of water! I’ll probably swell back up by tomorrow and go backwards but was nice while it lasted !

Thank you,

Suki 

Hi, I will definitely ask! I’m probably going to need it as it’s highly likely I’m going to be needing more surgery. They took a second biopsy with the wide local excision of a suspicious looking ulcer.