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6 weeks post Op--now eating pretty good....

JanBred
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Sep 02, 2012 - 1:54 pm

Since my J-tube fell out in the shower last week, and not replaced I found a way that keeps my food down...crackers. Before I was regurgitating with lots of mucus, and now if I eat something crispy with foods, it goes down fine. Has anyone tried this? My PA at Mayo/Rochester said it's time I get going on the full diet--well, I'm not there..yet...just want to keep my weight up.
My next onco. is 9/17 and just for labs--I thought I would be getting chemo because there was 1 bad lymph node out of 20. My margins were clean, staged 2-1-0. Should I demand chemo--I don't know. Thanks everyone.

JanBred
Posts: 42
 Joined: Jul 2012
Sep 02, 2012 - 2:15 pm
William....

Thanks, I know that chemo will happen. Hopefully in another month. My onco is from Mayo, and I don't understand why some prescribe chemo and some not..I was told that chemo is ineffective when one is type 1.
The pain is getting better, very slowly. Quite the change in lifestyle with EC.