January 27, 2021 was my surgery date. It was hard dealing with it as the time drew closer. “Total Gastrectomy” just sounds as brutal and traumatic as it was. But it had to happen. For a moment I thought about resisting. FLOT Chemotherapy was successful. They described my response to it as “remarkable”. My stomach […]

For a few years, I had been experiencing symptoms of illness in my stomach, and unable to tell what was happening. Living a typical lifestyle, no problems in general, and then once every few months, I’d wake up in extreme gastric distress. The feeling was like food poisoning. I’d go to urgent care, they would […]