hi Christine. I heard you are famous here on these boards! its comforting to know you have been through the same thing.

the residents helping my FIL out have said "he looks like what they study in their textbooks of what a patient should look like after surgery". The doctor comes in with a flashlight every day and checks the flap and says its healing well. yesterday apparently it started to pull a little bit, but my fiance says that "always happens"???

today was not as good a day- apparently my future FIL was a little more anxious and very drugged up.. prior to today though hes been walking and stuff and healing well and they had started taking out stitches. they also replaced the trach tube with a smaller trach that he can talk out of. they also took out

i dont mean to sound harsh, but i was wondering if there will come a time where the doctor will sit them down and give them more indepth info about what happened during the surgery, what stage of cancer he is in, what the prognosis is, etc...