sallas21

Welcome to the site, I am having lots of trouble coping with the Holidays while fighting for my life and being depressed. How are you coping?

We haven't heard from you for awhile. Hope you are doing well and that the new year is treating you well.

Hoping your Christmas was great.

I hope the problems you had at Thanksgiving are resolving more. Seems to me taking some time to deal with the let down of experiencing a new problem is necessary. You seem to be a very positive person so I expect your positive attitude will resume. My best wishes are with you.

I have not seen you on WhatNext for several months. I hope that is because you are busy having fun. I just had my biannual endoscopy to enlarge my esophagus. Now I can swallow again. I have started doing my speech therapy so maybe it will be more than 2 years before I need one again.

Hi sallas21,
No radiation. just immunotherapy and chemo. Boston tomorrow.

Sending prayers to all!

I haven't seen you around for a while. Are you taking care of yourself. How are healing. You are always in my prayers

Haven't seen any post from you lately. Was doing my monthly ck in on here and you came to mind. Hope you are recovering well and feeling better every day. Give us an update, lots of folks on here are thinking of you.

Hi Sallas, I hope you are doing ok. Still praying for you, and I hope the surgery was a success. I imagine you are resting, and I don't expect a response right away. I didn't finish what I was writing, but that's not important right now. You getting better is on my mind. Get well and my God bless you with better health.

How did surgery go? Pray all is well.

Keep in touch. I know you will do fine. Recovery may be tough but look how far you have come. Once you have your surgery stay as healthy as you can and stay busy. Push yourself that extra mile and recovery may not be as long. Its going to be time to live and you need to make plans to do so. May God be with you.

I am a 4 year EC survivor and post op recovery is in most cases tough. Not knowing what all they took when they did your surgery I can only comment on having a portion of the esophagus remaining. I lost 1/3 of my esophagus and 1/3 of my stomach. As of today I am cancer free and take no medications at all. Once you get use to not eating as much as you use to you will have to learn what likes you and what doesn't. My taste buds kinda went crazy after treatments so that might effect you also. I have read where some people are concerned about regaining the weight they have lost. My oncologist and my surgeon told me I should look at my surgery as an extreme gastric by-pass. Your weight will fall off to a degree and most likely stay at a certain point depending on the amount of intake and what you burn off in the amount of exercise you get in your normal day. I bottomed out at 150 from 265 and have been pretty active from day one after surgery. I am presently at 165 4 years later and It just hangs there give or take 5 lbs. It takes a little getting use to being thin but realistically I am in better shape. I wish you the best in your recovery.

Excuse the language if it offends you--kick this thing's ass. Been about a year since I noticed odd symptoms and started going in for tests. It's scary as hell, yes, and treatment can be a rough road. But there is life and joy on that road, too. Drop whatever negative things you can, live life, celebrate everything.

You have just joined a elite club Ladies with Esophageal Cancer. We girls with EC need to stick together there arem't very many of us.
Please fill in your journey so we can get to know you better

Hello sallas21, I am sorry you have been diagnosed with cancer, but i am glad you found us here on WhatNext. It is so scary to get a cancer diagnosis, especially during the first weeks and months. Please feel free to ask any questions you may have, share triumphs or experiences, offer support to others, or participate any other way that fits your needs best. We welcome you!

I am an esophageal cancer stage III survivor of 14 years. We created the Esophageal Cancer Education Foundation www.fightec.org to help patients with their journey through this disease.

We have co-authored a book called 100 Questions and Answers about Esophageal Cancer published by Jones and Bartlett and can be purchased at any book store.

We have also published a book called Esophagectomy Post Surgical Guide Questions & Answers published by Authorhouse that can be purchased at any bookstore or on our web site www.fightec.org

We have support groups that meet by conference call on a monthly basis. Patients calling in with quality of life questions and hearing how other patients have handled a specific issue.

We also have a 24 hour hotline to help with quality of life questions as well. Check it out.

Good luck

Bart

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