Surgery Rescheduled

Hi All,

Thank you all for you continued love.

My surgery has been pushed back 1 day (yeah!). The doctor has another major surgery to do and didn't want to do 2 in one day. So now my surgery will be May 24th at 7:30am.

My oncologist has given me the name of an individual who has had the same surgery. She is willing the talk with me and answer all my questions about the surgery. I hope she likes talking because I have at least 100 questions.

For a good laugh my hair continues to grow in every direction. It reminds me of those babies with the wild hair. Mine is very thin, very grey and very wild. It makes me smile when I walk past a mirror. I got a sunburn on my scalp, that's a first for me.

God Bless you all and have a wonderful day!

Surgery is Planned

Hi all,

Thank you for all your continued support, positive thoughts, prayers, calls, notes and cards.

My surgery has been planned for May 25th. The surgeon will be removing my esophagus and 1/3 of my stomach. He will then reshape the remaining stomach move it up thru my chest and attach it to my throat. I will be in the hospital for 9 days. I'm not sure on the length of time for recovery. I'll be having a feeding tube place during surgery and I don't know how long it will be there.

This waiting period is called my healing period. The doctor said the time was needed to heal my inside from the radiation. He explained to us that the radiation made my tissues like raw hamburg and the surgeon can't operate under those conditions.

I've been exercising daily to get my strength back. But I still seem to get tired easily, nothing a little rest or nap can't take care of. I find the pain in my stomach is getting better needing less pain medicine. My hair is growing, it's about 1/2 inch long now. I was hoping it would come back in curly but it is straight as a board. Just call me spike!

3/31/10, Endoscopy

Hi all this is Anne. I'm working on my first posting. I wanted to give you good news.

Dr. Millspaugh did a follow-up endoscope yesterday. He viewed the esophagus and stomach only. He could not view the infected nodes.

Findings: There was a smooth circumferential, superficial unceration in the distal esophasgus, extending from 29 cm to 31 cm. The gstroesophageal juntion apeared to be located at 31 cm. There was a cm hiatial hernia present extending from 31-35cm. The remainder of the stomach and duodenum were normal. Biopsies were taken within the ulcerated segment of the the distal esophagus.

Bottom line: tumor no longer appearing in the esophagus!!!

Impressions: Smooth, circumferential, ulceration in the distal 2 cm of the esphagus, Likely radiation injury. Biopsies taken to rule out neoplasm.

Dr. Millspaugh wished me luck with my upcoming surgery.

We take the these results to our visit with the surgereon Dr. McGillvary next Wednesday for more interpretation.

Praise the Lord and thank you for all of you prayers, positive thoughts.