i dont know if thise will be any help at all but am i say a cancer survivor 12 years ago iwas diagnosed with stage 4 esophageal cancer. i had radation theraphy twice a day everyday for 6 weeks and chemotherapy for 5 weeks every day for a week then skip a week i went from 185 and i am 6 ft 2 down to 103 when i went home from the hospital after surgery where they removed all of my esophagus the majority of my stomach pretty much all of my lymp knodes in my chest oh and my gall bladder when i got hit with all that the day they took me down to surgery when my mom kissed my cheek as they were taking me back to surgery would be the last time i would see my mother alive she was involved in an accident and suffered head trauma and iwould never see her again well i made it through the operation but was a patient in ICU for 2 weeks and the regular hospital for another 2 weeks it was a very tough adventure and they say its different for everyone and thats pretty much true so the only thing i can tell you and it sound like you have some good family support thers no way on earth that i could have made it without my family. because you really just have to have it its that bad I wish you all the luck in the world and when you are well recover maybe i can fill you in on part 2 god bless