Willie's cancer

​It’s been 3 weeks since surgery, 2 weeks home. Today we met with the oncologist to review pathology from the surgery and get the details on the rest of treatment.   The surgeon removes 17 lymph nodes around stomach area (1/2 stomach also removed), 1 lymph node from the top of esophagus (removed 2/3rds of esophagus), and 19 lymph nodes from the bottom of esophagus where the tumor was, and ALL of these had no cancer.  Basically, with the chemo and the surgery, which checked all the margins, he has no cancer.   With that said, he still gets to do 4 more rounds of chemo starting 3 weeks from now so just after Thanksgiving.  He’ll have a week off at Christmas.  Projected dates, not yet in the calendar are; round 1 December 2, round 2 December 16, round 3 December 30, and final round 4 January 13. Side note # 1: Willie’s hair is starting to grow back pretty well 👇🏻.  Side note #2 - Our current oncologist Ensi Voshtina is pregnant and due date 1/4/2026. It’s he...

I can’t believe November is finally here. We’ve slept at home now for 7 nights, same amount nights we slept at the hospital. Of course we are sleeping so much better at home Thank goodness we have an adjustable bed so Willie can be at 30 degree angle all the time due to the feeding tube and his remodeled insides. We are both doing great wirh tube feeding, medicines, and shot in the tummy each day (a blood thinner he has to have for 30 days after the surgery, 14 days down, 17 more to go till he’s done with that shot Nurse Cathy administering daily shot of Lovenox 💉 Yesterday we made a trip to the ER. One of the incisions below the J-tube was swollen, red, inflamed, very painful, and started leaking. This was an ongoing issue since Friday. But the leaking was new. Though the draining relieved some of the pain and pressure, it was scary. We thought maybe the feeding tube was leaking there. We called the surgeon on call who suggested we go to ER to have it looked at. Willie had been on an...