Hi
This is my first attempt at this so please bear with me.
This is extremely difficult to explain but basically I had an operation to remove a tumour from my oesophogus, this involved stretching my stomach up to create a new link between my throat & my stomach. Whilst the operation was initially successful after 5 day I became very ill. Following investigations it was apparent that the join had not taken & had started to die unfortunately causing most of my stomach to be burnt back & other complications to my lung due to necrotic fluid.
I had an immediate emergency operation to save me which involved tying off what was left of my stomach & inserting a jejunostomy peg feed for liquid food & drink. My remaining oesophogus was pulled out externally to a stoma to drain my nose & saliva. I ended up being in ICU for 11 days & spent 2 months in hospital. I only realised afterwards how ill I was although this was more obvious physically as I also lost 3st in weight. I released was told to get as fit as I could in readiness for another major operation, called Colonic interposition, basically involving a 14" piece of my large intestine transplanted to provide a new oesophogus.
Nine months later I was deemed fit enough to have the operation. It again went well however