Joni- My husbands surgery was a total sucess- meaning they were able to open his esopaghus to normal size. We then went back to memorial Sloan- Kettering for a dilitation, aweek later.. We do not need to go back. He will need to have a modified barium xray every 4-6 months to make sure the esopaghus doesn't start to reclose. He starts speech( swallowing) therapy tomorrow as those muscles have atrohied as he hasn't swallowed since the middle of January.He is eating applesauce, over easy eggs, mac and cheese etc. It takes him a long time!
The best gift I have given him during this awfiul disease and treatment was not accepting our ENT's statement that he would be on a peg tube for life. The doctor at Sloan was topnotch and followed thru with everything ,including getting these surgeies scheduled weekly.