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To kimlynn... yes... get your butt in and have them take a look-see by endoscopy. If anything looks suspicious it will be biopsied... and these results are usually 100% definitive... no more guessing. If not cancer... then maybe something else that can be addressed. If esophageal cancer... then the sooner it is diagnosed the better!

To Steve... I know you've been on our Zoom calls... so you know my thoughts on eating and dealing with our post-op aftermath. I don't blame dieticians... they know the end results were all looking for... but they don't quite have a feel for what it is to be us... and how this crazy esophagectomy surgery just gives us all such crazy various post-op results. So we're all left to figure out what works for us... and the changes we'll see on our post-op journeys. We all may arrive at the same destination in a year or two... but how we eventually get there is beyond imagination. You saw first-hand on our calls that we have somee crazy strange cases!

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Thanks again Gary. very insightful. Kimlynn, Mrgvw (Gary) is correct. Have an upper endoscopy and go from there. I had trouble swallowing (food getting hung up at the junction of the esophagus and stomach) and muscled through it for 3-4 months as my tumor grew. I hope yours is not a tumor, but if it is, earlier detection is better. If it's not, big relief and if necessary they can dialite a benign stricture and get you eating better. Best of luck and let us know how it goes.