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Esophagectomy: What is life like Afterwards?
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@manuelo hello manuelo. i have an update. i just wrote a long note to you and somehow it got lost. sorry if i repeat myself. i'm glad your feeling well 🙂 you said every complication possible... did your lung collapse too??? his lung collapsed, filled with fluid, infection and a leak. its the most feared one 😥 dr. says he's getting better. my sis in law said it was a bad day yesterday. they took a drainage tube out, there was alot of pain. she said, he had to walk a long way to the bathroom and it took everything out of him and lots of pain after. He has a sent in his lung and feeding tube. He's a retired pilot... always fit brave and macho. I worry but a tube coming out is a good thing. many thanks, Christina
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@ajax2026 Hi Christina, I didn’t get a collapsed lung which is a serious complication but its a good thing they are taking care of that for your brother. If he doesn’t feel right about leaving the hospital you and the rest of the family can try to advocate for him and ask they keep him there a bit longer to make sure he is ok. He is very delicate now to go home and go thru another emergency. I was lucky to have a top surgeon at a pretty good hospital so every emergency I had was handled promptly. Don’t let hospital decide for your brother if you guys dont fewl comfortable with decisions on his care. Sometimes we need to advocate for ourselves.
I am not sure how large was my leak but it looked like a sprinkler in the xrays.