@lindainca Thank you for your response. It really does give me hope. I will be having surgery at Rochester Mayo so feel good about that. Thankful to live close enough that it is an option. I'm really worried about weight loss though too. I'm already petite and lost some weight due to the esophageal cancer narrowing it at the GE junction. I'm worried I don't have enough to lose to manage surgery and being on a feeding tube so long! Any advice?