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Post Surgery Plan : Questions about chemo, cholesterol and more
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Bullsht... Take the statins... I never missed a beat at age 61... and I'm now 67. More harm is done by not taking them.
It is unusual to cut out the other 2 FLOT chemo drugs... but we all know how hard the adjuvant FLOT treatments are. Usually they just cut them back a certain percentage.
Clean post-op pathology is a great start... and it sure sounds like he's doing great so early on post-op. The journey back to eating well, no tummy aches, ass explosions, etc... takes a good year or two. Things are going to improve greatly for your husband... just very sloooowly! We host twice-weekly free EC and Esophagectomy Zoom calls for our fellow patients. Let me know if you'd like the one-touch Zoom link... I'll send it to you in a pm.
Be well.
Gary
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@mrgvw thank you! Yes, we’d like the link for sure. He goes for the third dilation tomorrow; hopefully it helps him to be able to eat better. Monday he starts chemo with the 5FU on a 36 hour pump- he’s aiming for doing that twice, as long as the first time doesn’t completely wipe him out. This is a new chemo plan so we don’t know how his body will react-he’s lost 20 pounds but he’s a fighter. We asked the surgeon for a tumor board so that’s happening on Tuesday but we don’t know if that will prove useful. The oncologist never asked that it be done. The treatment plan is pretty straightforward and I think at this point he just wants to get through it.