6 weeks later

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It is now 6 weeks after the surgery. The past few weeks have been dominated by recovery. I have had telephone contact with the pulmonologist several times. In one of those conversations, he said that the pathologist has determined that the tumor has been removed completely. The margins of clean tissue are minimal, max. 2 mm, which is why they want to give me radiation as a precaution. Before the radiation process can start, it must first be checked whether the seam in my trachea has healed properly.

Monday May 11

Today the pulmonologist will look into my trachea trough a bronchoscopy. Because it was not nice for me last time, this time I will get a sedation. The thing they can't do while I'm asleep is to give the anesthetic, that "fine" banana flavor again. When I wake up, I hear that everything went well and that the seam looks neat. So, a green light for the radiation process.

Comments

  1. Karanem9 August 2020 at 20:43

    Would like to hear more about your surgery, I have same diagnosis however complicated by trachea tumor which is sitting just beneath left vocal cord.

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    1. Debbie13 August 2020 at 00:17

      I wrote about the surgery in this post:
      https://debbievd.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-surgery.html

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  2. Lilygirl13 August 2020 at 00:12

    I too had ACC of the trachea. The tumor and 2+ inches of my trachea were removed, resected followed by 16 neutron treatments. That was over 4 years ago and so far no reoccurrence. I wish you the best.

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