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My Food Bucket List

As mentioned, what I will be able to eat after the surgery will be severely limited.  See, my stomach will be partially cut out and then the rest of it will be pulled up to be attached to what’s left of the esophagus.  This means the stomach looks more like a...

Beauty School Dropout

I met with the surgeon today, finally.  For the purposes of this discussion we’ll call him Dr. Frenchy, partly because he’s French and partly because it makes me think of Didi Conn in “Grease.”  He doesn’t remind me of Didi Conn in...

Ties that Binder

I’m a bit of a control freak.  Okay, maybe “bit of a” is a bit of an understatement.  Yes, someone apparently gave me OCD for my birthday a few years ago because I’m really big on the whole organization concept. I figured out why about two...

Removing the Asterisk

I had my procedure this morning, or at least attempted to.  Gastro-Guy got in there, poked around a bit, did an endoscopic ultrasound, and then packed up his tools and high-tailed it out of my esophagus.  Why?  Because it’s not cancer with an asterisk but plain...