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Upcoming Neph

Mike,

 

I wish I could say something nice about your upcoming nepherectomy. Mine was almost 13 years ago. It is major abdominal surgery. If your tumor is not very large or aggressive it can be a total cure. A small price to pay for the surgery. You will be in the hospital a few days and than on the couch for a week or two. Each day will get a little better with maybe a bad day. About a week or 10 days later you will be ready for a steak dinner. May you have an uneventful and as tolorable surgery as possable.

 

 

Icemantoo

 

Surgery

I wish you a boring surgery and a remarkable recovery

Footstomper said:

Surgery

I wish you a boring surgery and a remarkable recovery

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Left Kidney removal

Hi Mike,

Wow....3 different types of C ?? must be connected surely??......anyway mate....Oct 2014 I had my left kidney removed.....14 inch incision due to large tumor on my kidney...lots of abdominal muscle cut ...I hope yours is less invasive, in which case for every inch you arent cut the better....after the surgery they had me up and about and my body was willing but the drugs really didnt agree with me much, I am one of those that doesnt take to drugs unfortunately. I was out of hospital in 6 days nurses and drs. unbelievable....recovery was slow, lots of aches and pains, stiffness and general malaise/nausea for weeeks but got physically stronger every week. Make the effort to walk...do some stairs and increase your time as you progress...be careful not to overdo the abdominal stuff because it will come back to bite you. Rest as much as you can also. The doctors really dont go into all of the things you might expect because they dont really know from person to person...but I had low BP, dizziness,headaches, restlessness at night...some time nightsweats (after working my abs) neck and central chest stiffness, shortness of breath.....at th end of the day mate, the old body has taken a major shock to the system and its working itself out...8 months later I think I am generally getting there, although I now have mets on my lungs and maybe another big op to remove half a lung...not looking forward to that. If in doubt see your own doctor...get some things checked if you are worried. All the best, go for it and stay strong.

Tim

jason.2835 said:

Jeeze....

Mike,

Wow, man, that's a terrible hand to be dealt.  Unlike you, I do have somewhat of a family history of cancer (both grandparents on my mother's side died of it), so this is basically my worst nightmare.  But a positive way to spin it is: if you hadn't had the previous cancer, you probably wouldn't have been scanned as closely as you most likely were and, thus, your cancer was hopefully found early.

My tumor was found incidentally after some gallbladder issues.  I was supposed to have a robotic PARTIAL neph but the surgeon took the whole thing when he discovered I had a third artery near the tumor site.  He felt trying to cut it out would have caused serious bleeding, so he took the whole thing.  I was fine with that.  Not sure how they are going in, but a laparoscopic procedure is certainly preferable when it comes to recovery.  I had worse fatigue than anything after the nephrectomy.  Pain was not that bad at all.  

A quick 6 months after my neph I had some serious gallbladder flare ups and the doctor thought it was time to come out.  Again, scheduled for a laparoscopic procedure but it was switched to open because of my "exceptionally bad" (his words) gallbladder.  So I had a 7+ inch incision on my right side that hurt like a B****, let me tell you.  Pain is obviously worse the longer the incision site.  

Either way... the tumor coming out is GOOD not bad.  I wonder if the doctor would want to do genetic testing to see if their is a correlation between your 3 cancers... what were the others if you don't mind me asking?  Good luck to you, my friend.

- Jay

Mike,

Forget it, I read your profile and it answered the questions of the other cancers and the genetic testing.  Good luck again, man.

- Jay

danbren2 said:

WOW!

Mike,

     I can not believe 3 different cancers, wishing and praying for the best for you!  By the way I had my right kidney removed in August 2011, and I was fortunate enough to have it done laprscopic.  I was only in the hospital 3 days and back to work in 4 weeks, not much pain and a fairly quick recovery.

     Hoping that yours will be a quick painless surgery with recovery being just as fast!

                                             Prayers for good health!

                                              Brenda

Mike,
You have had your share

Mike,

You have had your share of setbacks. I am hoping your surgery will go well and you will be feeling your normal self again quickly.

Please keep us posted!

Hugs

Jojo