Guess that things are slipping into a routine around here. Hubby gets up, eats a fruitcup of peaches and cottage cheese and waits till I get up, we have scrambled eggs with cheese or poached eggs or oatmeal

Then every 1 and a half hubby will eat something. He'll alternate each feeding ...one time it'll be something light then the next time something with a little more substance....like the eggs or oatmeal. This seems to work for him..occasionally he'll eat too much or too fast and get nauseated or have a pain in his gut...he'll lay down for a while and sip water, that seems to help.

Oh, MY!!! When I look at him without his shirt..he looks like a Holocaust survivor....so skinny..all bones showing.

I was trying to do some research on the internet for hubby's kind of cancer because he wants to 'talk' with other survivors of esophageal cancer to compare notes. Evidently most people who have had this cancer were diagnosed very late in the cancer so their prognosis was very grim and they died shortly after diagnosis. Hubby's cancer was staged as 2B (whatever that means.)

His cousin had the same cancer and he was staged as a 4. He died about a year after his surgery. The tumor on the cousin was the size of a grapefruit next to his heart. Hubby's was barely a marble.

I'm trying to not think about what other people had experienced and praising God Hubby's cancer was caught VERY early, so the prognosis is quite good. This doesn't help Hubby connect up with someone of similar experiece.(like I have with strokenet...an online chat group of sorts.) There probably is something out there for him to 'connect' with but I'm slow-witted in knowing how to find that forum. Hubby isn't computer/internet savvy. He's a one finger typist.

If any of you have a suggestion of where to look, I've googled esophageal cancer...500,000 entries about the cancer itself and the course of treatment and reports of the people who've died from it. My 'adopted' daughter suggested I start a site so to be a host...something like me being a Steve Mallory, yeah, right!

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