My Update

Ok so here's a quick update with me...a down and dirty and the low down…its not pretty…not ugly either but here it is. I am going for surgery on Wednesday. I am going to meet with the anesthesiologist tomorrow for presurgery workup. I am expected to be in the hospital for 8-9 days and in ICU for the first 2 days. Feeding tube for a month. Expected to eat after day 5 or 6 but small small meals. I am going to maintain the feeding tube to make sure that I can maintain nutrition during chemotherapy. Um they are going to take just above the tumor and just below…so that equates to some esophagus and some stomach and everything in between. They are going in my stomach and in by my clavicle…not sure how that all works out but he’s done it quite a few times and wasn’t going to question it. He’s done well over a hundred of these surgeries and I am the youngest he’s ever done it on. 5 out of every 100 die due to complication s of one type or another. I intend to be one of the 95. So that pretty much covers it, quick and clean. I'll be at Yale Hospital and the surgeon has been doing his job longer than I've been alive. He is the Chief of Surgery for Yale New Haven and as far as I'm concerned there is nobody in the world I want to do it more than him. Well I would do it but sees as I'm going under the knife I'm not much of a candidate. Well again thats the long and the short of it.