Guest guest Posted April 27, 2006 Report Share Posted April 27, 2006 Good luck, Randy - I'll be rooting for you! Cathy C. > > Just to let you folks know that I will be going in for surgery to > place a feeding tube in the unused portion of my stomach, as I am no > longer able to swallow, due to the effects of my radiation treatment > for tongue base cancer. Dr. Lee, who certainly knows more about post- > bariatric anatomy than anyone else around, will be performing the > procedure, and it will be an open procedure, not the usual > percutaneous punch or even a mini-lap. Thus, I will be in the > hospital for four days. I also suspect that they will be hydrating > me by I.V. as well, since I have not been able to eat nor drink > almost anything for the last four days. So, I will not be here to > post or to read in this group until sometime next week...when I have > to also have the mask I use during radiation treatments re-done (I > have lost so much weight that it no longer fits well enough to serve > as a guide for the computer-targeted radiation), and another session > of chemotherapy along with the radiation. > > So please keep a good thought for me as I try to get through the > next three and a half weeks of therapy. Then two to three months of > recovery, followed by neck dissection surgery to get what we hope > will be the last of the cancer. Good luck to everyone. > > Randy > Orientation 313 > Surgery 2/2/06 281 > Current 215 > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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