rehab is worrying and exhausting

[Ruri2712]

My partner, Stuart, had an oesophagectomy on 14 November 24. Since then he has not been able to swallow due to how high up the surgery took place. He had a video last week to check if he could swallow safely but sadly not. The response from the therapist that there was “an absence of swallowing exercises.” She asked what exercises he had been given but she said these were of no use. (The video happened at a hospital which was not the one where he had his operation) So different speech and language therapy dept. He asked which ones he should be doing which she described saying she would email these to him, not received. Though he did have the names of them which I looked up and we followed the videos. These have now been confirmed by another speech and language department who he’ll see in a couple of weeks. Needless to say he’s becoming more and more stressed and frustrated. And me too. I’m just hoping he’ll be able to swallow as I don’t think he could cope being gastric fed for the rest of his life. The therapist said these exercises were the only route to recovery of his swallowing.