Thank you all for your responses. The Medical Oncologist gave us a prescription and it is helping. We have an appointment to see her on 5/17/.The swallowing is the same but the mucous is less thick and less often. He has a thick coating on his mouth which really bothers him. The swallowing has new issues . We saw his ENT last week and he had a barium xray today.
They found an 8 centimeter stricture on his esophaus way down. The radioligist says a stent will be needed. Our ENT has told us to call our PCP to get a referral to a gastro... DOC(sp).I have a call in to him.We also saw a speech therapist who said based on the xray nothing he could offer will be helpful until we see the above doctor. We are very fustrated by the delays and beaureauacy. I will be calling our PCP every hour tommorow. We don't want to have to wait a long time to get this going. From what I have read on this forum- I'm hoping that dilations might be an option beside surgery.
I feel better informed from this forum then by all the complications the doctors don't tell us about. My husband opted for our regional cancer center- Bassett in Cooperstown. Now I'm having doubts. They have a team approach but I feel they don't cordinate and communicate.