Surgery Update

Hello my friends, family, stalkers, randoms, whoever or whatever you are! So surgery was a BLAST! Nah I'm kidding I was in the operating room for about 8 hours. Surgery went good there were no complications. They removed the growth on my lower esophagus and used a piece of my small intenstine to attach it to the lower part and to my stomach. Sounds gross I know! After surgery I was in a lot of pain. I couldn't move, coughing and yawning hurt so bad, and I was just in pain all over. Especially with the tubes attached to me, the chest tube is the worst, my NG tube is annoying because its hard to talk with it and breath. But hey its keeping me alive!


The past couple of days I have been walking around to get my exercise and not get any blood clots or whatever, coughing and breathing exercises to keep the lungs clear of fluid so I dont get pneumonia or other sicknesses. I'm still in pain, unfortunately I will be staying in the hospital for more than a week, its too bad because I didn't pack enough gameboy and psp  games for that long.


Hopefully this is a fast recovery, but I dont want to rush through anything and also I want to thank my peeps who visit me and all the nice food baskets and flowers lol. Thank you for teasing me with the food that I can not eat and watched my friends and family eat it in front of me and I guess my mom is starting a flourist shop with all my plants I got haha! But seriously thank you everyone, it means a lot!

Rebulation - Feeling Alright

Surgery

So today I'm having surgery done. They are going to cut part of my lower esoph and replacing it with a tube and if that doesn't work they will take a piece of my small intestine and use that. I'm a little nervous but whatever is going to make me better, I'm up for it. Besides that I packed my gameboys, movies, laptop, ipod, I'm all set for this week stay at the hospital. Check back later tonight and I'll have my mom or someone update how everything is going.

Thrice - Open Water

"You Have Cancer"

At age 22 you don't want to hear your doctor tell you, you have cancer. I thought I was invincible, however cancer changed everything from that moment I got the news.
I wasn't expecting going to get checked out and leaving with cancer. When I heard those words "you have cancer"....it was a numbing feeling and I just put my head down and looked up at my mom in confusion and smiled at her.

Another thing is that, it's the worst feeling having to tell your family and friends the news. I was just running everything in my head how am I gonna say this. I just told them everything that's going on with me and my condition and told them to be just positive and don't look at me differently because I don't want anything to change. Treat me like you have always treated me and keep it that way.

I'm glad I have the friends and family who are by my side. Without them this would be a lonely journey I will have to face. I'm glad I don't have to suffer through all this alone, I have my loved ones with me for the ride.

I know there is going to be up and downs on this jounrey for me but I'm ready for this battle and I'll fight till the end.