When faced with Total Gastrectomy, after a diagnosis of Stage 1 adenocarcinoma which was prolific throughout my stomach, I immediately thought of the Surgeon who I thought would be the best to perform this surgery. I am an Administrator at a Home Health agency but I...
In October last year, I met with a genetics department to find out if I had inherited the CDH1 mutation. If somebody had told me back then, that in less than twelve months I would be living a stomachless-life, I wouldn’t have believed them. Since that very first...
My story is a little different as to why I had a Total Gastrectomy. July 1st, 2016 was when I had the emergency procedure. When I was a teenager (I am now 26) I was very overweight and tried everything under the moon. Once I was 18 as a last resort I turned to and...