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  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #22
    Thanks Stub and Foxhd!!!!

    Thanks Stub and Foxhd!!!!

  • Rockspin
    Rockspin Member Posts: 77
    edited November 2017 #23
    APny said:

    Anissa, that's a very good

    Anissa, that's a very good report. I'm sorry you lost the kidney but the important thing is that the RCC is gone. All the best to you! I hope you can start feeling a little easier now that your path report is back.

    Rockspin, the grading depends on how closely the cancer cells resemble normal kidney cells. Grade 1 = closest to normal, grade 4 = very different from normal. A grade 2 is not bad at all. It may still be mostly grade 1 cells but if they find a certain number of the higher grade ones the pathologist classifies it by the higher grade.

    Thanks for the info.

    Thanks for the info.

  • ImNotDeadYet
    ImNotDeadYet Member Posts: 244
    edited November 2017 #24
    AnnissaP said:

    Thanks again everyone!! All

    Thanks again everyone!! All of your messages help. I know "friends" mean well, but they have no idea. They all say " I am so glad you are better!" What is that supposed to mean? Now that the tumor is out I just go on with life like nothing happened? Just like the rest of you, my life will never be the same. I cannot say I am free of this. It was just taken out. I am still healing and will have my first scan in 3 months. Today was the day the doctor actually looked me in the face and said 100% it was cancer. When can I say I do not have kidney cancer? Is it after 5 yrs of clean tests??? 

    I struggle with that question too

    I hesitate to say I don't have cancer (even before my current adventures with lung nodules). Instead, I simply say that I'm surviving cancer. The way I look at it, every day that I'm above ground and breathing is a day I've survived cancer, whether I have it or not.

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #25
    ImNotDeadYet said:

    I struggle with that question too

    I hesitate to say I don't have cancer (even before my current adventures with lung nodules). Instead, I simply say that I'm surviving cancer. The way I look at it, every day that I'm above ground and breathing is a day I've survived cancer, whether I have it or not.

    That makes sense!

    That makes sense!

  • stub1969
    stub1969 Member Posts: 986 Member
    #26
    I agree

    with Fox, Annissa.  I look forward to seeing your light shine through a picture with a smile. 

    Stub

  • jazzgirl
    jazzgirl Member Posts: 243 Member
    edited November 2017 #27
    "they got it all"

    Hey Annissa,

    Those were the best words I heard after surgery (along with "clear margins") and I am so glad you got to hear them.  Yes, the emotional side does seem more difficult than the physical at times - for me it ebbs and flows, including those feelings of guilt.  Know that you have lots of prayers and good thoughts from people who identify with what you have been through and your path forward.  Take care.

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #28
    Ok ok! I changed my picture

    Ok ok! I changed my picture lol. I truly appreciate all of the messages. Thank you!!!!!!!

  • jazzgirl
    jazzgirl Member Posts: 243 Member
    #29
    Yes!

    Now THAT’S a smile!

  • stub1969
    stub1969 Member Posts: 986 Member
    #30
    Wow!

    Great picture, Annissa.  Like Jazz said, "Now That's a Smile!"

    Stub

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #31
    :-D

    :-D

  • icemantoo
    icemantoo Member Posts: 3,361 Member
    #32
    Good news

    Annissa,

     

    Keep it up for another 30 or fourty years.

     

    Icemantoo

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #33
    I hope to!!!! Lol

    I hope to!!!! Lol

  • foxhd
    foxhd Member Posts: 3,181 Member
    #34
    What a happy lady!

    Now this is how karma spreads. Great example of great news followed with a look of sincere happiness. The smiles are spreading and everyone feels a bit better. Across the board, karma healing at it's best. Nice work AnnissaP.

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #35
    Thanks foxhd!!!  You are a

    Thanks foxhd!!!  You are a treasure here!!!!

  • Angiebby75
    Angiebby75 Member Posts: 208 Member
    #36
    Great pic

    Annisa great pic.  I had my first salon visit since the surgery it is the little things that make you feel more like your old self. A smile does a lot.

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #37
    Angiebby75 said:

    Great pic

    Annisa great pic.  I had my first salon visit since the surgery it is the little things that make you feel more like your old self. A smile does a lot.

    Good for you!!!!! It must

    Good for you!!!!! It must have felt great!!

  • kiwi68
    kiwi68 Member Posts: 110
    #38
    Good News

    Annisa,  this is great news.  Happy to hear that the pathology was as expected.   Love your happy new profile picture.  I don't know why but I keep adding one but it never shows up. User error probably.     Keep on with the mental approach to understanding what has happened and accepting and understanding it.   You will have lots to think about in the future, how you position your new health status along side all of the other considerations in your life.  I am sure you will do well at it though, you seem very in touch with your emotional health and well being so will takes whatever steps are necessary.   Best wishes for the next 3 weeks of physical recovery.  Jo xx

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #39
    Kiwi!! Thank you so so much!!

    Kiwi!! Thank you so so much!!!!! I appreciate your words. Maybe try deleting your current pic first then adding the new one? I updated mine that way and also just by adding a new pic. Good luck!!!

  • Canadian Sandy
    Canadian Sandy Member Posts: 784 Member
    #40
    Love your smile Annissa.
     

    Love your smile Annissa.

     

  • AnnissaP
    AnnissaP Member Posts: 632 Member
    #41
    Canadian Sandy said:

    Love your smile Annissa.
     

    Love your smile Annissa.

     

    Thank you Sandy!

    Thank you Sandy!

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