Chapter 2
Living with a Stent

Chapter 3
Living with Palliative Care

Sections

1)
Introduction
2)
Background
3)
Deciding on a Stent
4)
Having the Stent Inserted
5)
Pain
Eating again!
6)
Some Limitations and Hints
7)
Conclusion

Last Revised, 05-Nov-2002
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Background

        For those of you who did not read “Living With EC” I am including a little background. I am a male and was 61 years old at the time I was diagnosed with EC and was well overweight at 238 lb. at 5’ 9”.

        I noticed difficulty eating for the first time in February, 1998. I first saw a doctor about March, 1998. I was initially treated for stomach troubles and over the next few months things got distracted by a drug reaction and, to make a long story short, I was not sent for an Endoscopy until December 4, 1998. At that time I was diagnosed with EC. I was given a course of chemotherapy and radiation in February, 1999. This palliative treatment reduced the size of the cancer and gave me a remission that allowed me to return to almost normal eating habits. By the end of May the esophagus began to close again and I had it “stretched” as required.
 
 

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