Thanks Christine, Don and Uptown. I, too, hope that this will become the go-to treatment for people with strictures in their esophagus post radiation. I had actually taken as fact that John would never eat/drink again. Yesterday I was able to take out my smoothie recipes and had John pick out the ones he would like to try. What a wonderful moment that was! We are planning to give Christine's peanut butter smoothie a try at some point.

I also have to mention that John is still getting chemo. Because the procedure is not really invasive, the interventional radiologist was able to do it during the three weeks between chemo doses even when John's white blood count was low (1.3). Our MO is totally in support of the effort and was in contact with the IR about the arrangements. We are truly lucky to have these doctors.