Well, it's been 13 days now since the surgery and Dad is home and doing well. There were no complications to really speak of. Only thing is that he has to take the oxygen home for a week or so to use while walking.
Pathology reports are back now, all clean. They took out a ton of nodes, some tissue from his lung that turned out to be nothing, and the piece of esoph where the tumor originally was... all gone!
I am so relieved. I hope my dad will have a good recovery.
Can anyone shed some light on lung capacity/shortness of breathe after surgery? Turns out dad has a touch of emphasema, which we never knew until all of this cancer stuff began. He quit smoking 14 years ago. I am nervous he is going to use the oxygen as a crutch- he is using it at night and sometimes during the day.