New to Kidney Cancer but Growing Old Fast
I have found out the same thing as all of you, this is a very hard cancer to treat. I love a good fight and that is what I plan to do fight.
I would like more information on this type of cancer when I look around the website. I would like to see it all in one place, survival stories and health information. If I can't I will do it myself, it seems to me that we all could help each other learn and grow together.
I would love to here for anyone about their experience. My Lord has not let me go through all of this for nothing and I believe he means for all of us to help not just ourselves but other people who are facing cancer without his love and guidance.
My email address is Creatinmea@aol.com. If you would like to write me I would love to hear from you.
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I was diagnosed with cancer of my right kidney in April, 1999. Like you, I held onto my faith with all I had. I don't know what stage you have or where you are in your treatment? I had stage I, which meant the cancer was contained within my kidney. I had my right kidney removed within 7 days of diagnoses. Since then I have check-ups every four months to insure that indeed there was no spread of cancer. I has forever changed my life. You go through stages, first terror, then anger, then depression and finally you come out the other side. I still fear cancer, every cough, sneeze, lump, you name it. I suppose it will take a long time to get over. I just had another check up and the Doc. found swollen lymph glands so once again I await test results.0
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I was sent to the hospital 3/6/03 and told i had cancer of the Right kidney and was sent home then 3/11/03 i was back in the hospital and they removed my right kidney. I didn't have time for any of this to really sink in ,all i was in was shock like you i was told it was contained in the kidney stage 1 i believe even though they never told me. I was releasted from the hospital and the surgan did the follow-up one week later and told me i could be releast to go back to work 4/11/03. Well I didn't go back to work I don't know how to feel i cry and i am not a crying person which i mean to say is against my personiality but i cry . I can't do my house work as i am still in pain from surgery So how can i go back to a job where i have to tend to customers needs for 8 hours a night and lift bolts of fabric and i can't even take care of my own needs because i dont' know what is normal and what is not. I feel like they took my kidney and threw me away to sink or swim. So i ask you NOW WHAT am i loosing my mind, am i being a baby is this normal? I don't know. Is their no live chats?kellybeth said:I was diagnosed with cancer of my right kidney in April, 1999. Like you, I held onto my faith with all I had. I don't know what stage you have or where you are in your treatment? I had stage I, which meant the cancer was contained within my kidney. I had my right kidney removed within 7 days of diagnoses. Since then I have check-ups every four months to insure that indeed there was no spread of cancer. I has forever changed my life. You go through stages, first terror, then anger, then depression and finally you come out the other side. I still fear cancer, every cough, sneeze, lump, you name it. I suppose it will take a long time to get over. I just had another check up and the Doc. found swollen lymph glands so once again I await test results.
If you want to e-mail me my address is katerria@yahoo.com0
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