Hi Katie, 

i lost my dad 58 in March to this. He was initially diagnosed in August last year and was due to have the operation to cure in Feb. End of Jan we found out it had spread even after intense treatment. 

My dad was my world and so is my grandad so I know how you feel in terms of it being your grandad and his young age. 

The pain relief was good, dad had a syringe driver towards the end which kept on top of it. He lost a lot of weight as he wasn’t able to eat even after having a stent put in to try and open his oesophagus up a bit. 

I don’t want to talk about the end as I pray for a miracle for you, but will say that dad just became withdrawn, he was there, but wasn’t there if you know what I mean. The nurses said we would notice this and it would make us upset, but he himself wouldn’t realise. I was with him right until the end and it was the most peaceful I have seen him in months and months. 

Stay strong, you are very young to be dealing with something so horrible so speak to people and get support where you can x 

Hi Katie, 

i lost my dad 58 in March to this. He was initially diagnosed in August last year and was due to have the operation to cure in Feb. End of Jan we found out it had spread even after intense treatment. 

My dad was my world and so is my grandad so I know how you feel in terms of it being your grandad and his young age. 

The pain relief was good, dad had a syringe driver towards the end which kept on top of it. He lost a lot of weight as he wasn’t able to eat even after having a stent put in to try and open his oesophagus up a bit. 

I don’t want to talk about the end as I pray for a miracle for you, but will say that dad just became withdrawn, he was there, but wasn’t there if you know what I mean. The nurses said we would notice this and it would make us upset, but he himself wouldn’t realise. I was with him right until the end and it was the most peaceful I have seen him in months and months. 

Stay strong, you are very young to be dealing with something so horrible so speak to people and get support where you can x 

My husband is in hospital with this terrible cancer they can’t control the pain as the nerve endings on gullet and spread to lymph nodes absolutely awful watching this hasn’t eaten over two weeks constant pain on driver at 160 mgs morpheme and now for chronic pain methodone has anyone else on hear been in my situation staying at hospital for two weeks now