Five years ago...

dhs1963

Five years ago this weekend, I was on top of the world. Life was going well. Work was amazing. I had just eaten at Taste of Vienna...and then got to watch the Nats rookie play his first game, and hit a double off the wall. Yeah, I was a little tired all the time, but figured that was because I was approaching 50. But, I would take long walks to town, and even go on bike rides.

 

5 years ago tomorrow (April 30), the Nats had an off day. Because of that, I did something stupid. Overnight, I ended up with abdominal cramps -- and the pain was so intense I passed out, landing on my face and breaking my nose.

 

In the wee hours of the morning, the ambulance came. It was now May 1. The ambulance came. The ambulance. Ugh. Off to Fairfax Hospital. They were not concerned about the fainting or the nose, but did a CT scan to find the pain.

 

CT did not tell them that...but it did find something else -- a 5.7 cm tumor on my right kidney. The kidney is gone now...off in a pathology lab somewhere. In time, my diagnosis progressed to Stage IV grade 4 metastatic renal cell carcinoma. No one gave me survival odds at first. Rather they told me everyone is different.

 

A few years later, I was given the survival odds. 10% at 5 years. Here I am. 10% chance. Take that Cancer!

icemantoo

Lucky broken nose

dhs.

 

If it weren't for that lucky broken nose, the tumor could have grown and things would have been much worse.

 

 

Icemantoo

JerzyGrrl

Have you ever...

Wow.

Nats'off day --> Your doing something stupid -->  Severe pain --> Passing out --> Broken nose --> Looking for pain source --> Finding RCC --> Surgery --> 

YOU'RE STILL HERE!

Have you ever thanked the Nats for their off day?

Jojo61

That is an amazing story -

That is an amazing story - and so glad you are here to tell it to us! You are doing great!

Cheers and hugs

Jojo