Oesophagus cancer

My husband diagnosed 27th June with oesophagus cancer has had 6 weeks chemotherapy finished on 4th October CT Scan 11th October with view to operation within 4 to six weeks has any one had this big operation can you tell us about it please

Thank you !

  • Thanks so much for your kindness

  • Steve and I weren't very lucky, in the sense that he died, which is one reason why I don't like to respond "en masse" because I don't want anyone to think it's all doom and gloom.... it's not.  People do recover from OC every day and I celebrate each and every success story I hear about (@davek for one).  Happy to keep in touch and have responded to your friend request (@jellybeans and @pooh-bear), but just to let you know, I can only give you my story..... everyone is different, so please don't be downhearted.

    Take care 

    Ruth x

  • Thank you for being so honest,  yes I appreciate everyone is very different we are staying positive as that's all we can do.   We just have everything crossed and staying hopeful.   Thank you very much and please accept  my condolences and hope you are doing ok as well as you can when cancer strikes and takes away our most precious treasured possession.   Best Wishes Jackie. x

     

     

  • Thanks Jackie

    I said Steve and I were not so lucky because he died but we were so, so lucky to have had 33 wonderful years together. we are coming up to the first anniversary so things are tough but when I look back at everything Steve went through, all of the treatment, the procedures and the medication, given the prognosis, I can be thankful that he died at home, holding my hand, very peacefully. And, relatively quickly from diagnosis 15 months earlier.

    I wish you both all the luck in the world. Nobody, NOBODY, knows what the future holds, So my advice to you and anyone else reading this is to take each day as it comes, talk to each other (that is one thing that Steve and I did, about everything, and I am convinced it helped us get through the darkest times) and remember you are both in this together. your well-being is vitally important to your husbands, they are intrinsically linked, so please look after yourself.

    x

  • Thank you so much for your lovely words ....   and yes you were together with no hospital or interruptions at the end...  you must take so much comfort from that ...  our thoughts are with you as the anniversary nears...  and thank you for including me in your words as I sometimes think some people think I'm invisible. X