Comments on: Life-saving surgery provides a second chance https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/life-saving-surgery-provides-a-second-chance/ News Resources Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 By: Caroline Adams https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/life-saving-surgery-provides-a-second-chance/#comment-3259 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:07:33 +0000 https://sharing.mayoclinic.org/?p=8806#comment-3259 I am very excited about the article concerning Jorge Rivera’s surgery to replace or rebuild his esophagus. Was his airway involved in the replacement? My husband just recently was hospitalized from Dec. 1, 2012 until Feb. 4, 2013 for treatment of aspiration pneumonia. He was transferred 3 times during this period.
He had radiation and chemotherapy for tongue cancer about 12 years ago and has been cancer-free since. He has nothing by mouth and all food and medicines must be administered through a stomach tube. He was released from the 4th hospital (rehab) with a new case of pneumonia due to probably “silent aspiration”. He has been advised that a jejunostomy would prevent the reflux and aspiration. Can this, which I am told is a relatively simple procedure, and more so because he already has the current stomach tube; be performed even if he is still recovering? It seems that the cycle is non-ending. Tony has struggled mightily and was very determined and successful in rehab. In late November, before this hospitalization in December, he had been on a camping trip and is very active and involved with life. If the surgery performed on Mr. Rivera would have application to my husband, I would very much like to know or if the jejunostomy would be the best course of action, please advise us. Tony, Dennis T. Adams, has been your patient before in Jacksonville with the first of several cases of aspiration pneumonia.

Thankfully and respectfully,
Caroline Adams

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