Stent

My dad has esophageal cancer~ he had chemo and radiation~ has had a feeding tube since oct. 05
He has not ate or drank anything since oct. Not even swallow his spit. The doctor went down his throat and saw his esophagus had healed closed. So he went up threw his feeding tube with a stent
And made a opening. And it worked!!!! He still has his feeding tube - just in case. But he is starting to eat. Im sure it will take awhile- but we are so happy he can eat again. He says the food taste is only about half of what it was. But it's a start.

the taste of food will eventually come back to him. It took me about 3 months to start enjoying food again. Sounds like he will be ok.

thank you so much for the e-mail!!
how are you doing? did you have the same thing?
we are worried- that after all he has been through -that he is not tasteing the food. he says its about half the flavor now. how long have you had yours done?\
thanks again!

Hi, I did not have to recieve chemo or radiation I was very lucky in that part. However I did spend 7 hours in surgery to remove the tumor and 20 days in the hospital. I recall that for several weeks food tasted terrible to me, everything i tried to eat tasted like cardboard. I lost 50 pounds and was very weak but just couldnt bring myself to eat.
After weeks of eating mashed potaos, jello and the like finally i began to eat some real food such as chicken, vegatables, bread, etc and today one year later i have regained about 18 of the 50 pounds i havd lost, i feel stronger and am doing fine.

He will be fine, everyone with EC goes through this. You need to make sure he eats...something, anything until his taste comes back(and it will eventually). I ate these foods( mashed potato, apple sauce, pudding, jello, green beans, oatmeal, protein drink, etc)