Happy Birthday you have cancer

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  • Steve51
    Steve51 Member Posts: 23 Member
    #22
    I WAS 55 IN 2006

    when I got my news. I don't post much here but I do read here always. I learned the term "the new normal" here. I can't believe I'm alive and well in 2018. The regulars that post are informative, honest, funny and a great support system. IF, you do have RCC, you are aloud to be afraid and you will learn to live with it. Focus on the things you love and think the glass is half full. TRY, not to feel sorry for yourself, it doesn't help. Search for the best doctor for you. Most cancer doctors really care about their patients. Best of luck to you

  • Trinityo88
    Trinityo88 Member Posts: 22
    #23
    Steve51 said:

    I WAS 55 IN 2006

    when I got my news. I don't post much here but I do read here always. I learned the term "the new normal" here. I can't believe I'm alive and well in 2018. The regulars that post are informative, honest, funny and a great support system. IF, you do have RCC, you are aloud to be afraid and you will learn to live with it. Focus on the things you love and think the glass is half full. TRY, not to feel sorry for yourself, it doesn't help. Search for the best doctor for you. Most cancer doctors really care about their patients. Best of luck to you

    not my style

    You know, it isnt and never has really been my style to do the whole feeling sorry for my self thing.  My attitude is more like, well crap this sucks lets do what we have to do to fix it.  Don't get me wrong my mood swings could be what legends are made of (please keep my wife in your thoughts).  But I think a big part of that is my body still trying to heal from the hysterectomy and now finding out that I am fighting something else.  I am just so dang tired all the time. 

    Don't get me wrong, there is a lot of fear involved with all this and the not knowing could make a sane person nuts and I am far from sane.  I certainly hope that come Thursday I will get more information and go ahead and get my surgery scheduled so I at least have a time frame in stone. 

  • shepp
    shepp Member Posts: 11
    #24
    Me too!

    I got my stage 4 diagnosis two days before my birthday last June. (I actually first found out online; someone had mistakenly posted my scan results.)

    Now here I am eight months later, feeling better than I have in over a year and preparing to go on a two-week cruise through the Panama Canal. Take heart and try your best to live in the moment. It's not over till it's over.

  • Vivaldi
    Vivaldi Member Posts: 27
    #25
    Another 10%er

    i found out I had a kidney tumour on Christmas Eve. Since both my father and grandfather died of kidney cancer, we were really not even thinking an oncocytoma was even possible. Six months later, after surgery and after pathology, I found out it was an oncocytoma.  I had an open partial, mine was on the top of my right kidney so not eligible for laparoscopic. I know 90% is a big number, but there are obviously those ten in a hundred who have a ten percenter. My sincere hope is that you get the same result. 

  • CRashster
    CRashster Member Posts: 241 Member
    #26
    Happy Birthday

    I'd hate to see what you get for Christmas.

  • todd121
    todd121 Member Posts: 1,448 Member
    edited February 2018 #27
    Birthdays

    My tumor was found the week before Thanksgiving in 2012. I had my nephrectomy the week before my 51st birthday, and was home recovering on my birthday.

    Hopefully they can do a laparascopic partial and you can keep most of your kidney, as long as they are sure they can get clean margins.

    I wonder why some people they do that examination of the bladder and many/most people they don't? I've been wondering about that. For me, they took part of of the ureter and had it examined when they removed the kidney just to make sure it hadn't spread towards the bladder, but they didn't do an examination of the bladder. Does the CT not show what's going on with the bladder? Just curious why they are suspicious to take a closer look at the bladder. It's not one of the places that we hear of kidney cancer spreading next. There are some other cancers that occur in the kidney besides RCC that do spread that direction (or come from that direction).

    Hopefully that is clear and you get your partial and you're done with it. I'd stick with follow ups for a long, long while. Don't let them sell you on 5 years clean and your done with RCC (if that's what it turns out to be...)

    Best to you,

    Todd

  • Trinityo88
    Trinityo88 Member Posts: 22
    edited February 2018 #28
    todd121 said:

    Birthdays

    My tumor was found the week before Thanksgiving in 2012. I had my nephrectomy the week before my 51st birthday, and was home recovering on my birthday.

    Hopefully they can do a laparascopic partial and you can keep most of your kidney, as long as they are sure they can get clean margins.

    I wonder why some people they do that examination of the bladder and many/most people they don't? I've been wondering about that. For me, they took part of of the ureter and had it examined when they removed the kidney just to make sure it hadn't spread towards the bladder, but they didn't do an examination of the bladder. Does the CT not show what's going on with the bladder? Just curious why they are suspicious to take a closer look at the bladder. It's not one of the places that we hear of kidney cancer spreading next. There are some other cancers that occur in the kidney besides RCC that do spread that direction (or come from that direction).

    Hopefully that is clear and you get your partial and you're done with it. I'd stick with follow ups for a long, long while. Don't let them sell you on 5 years clean and your done with RCC (if that's what it turns out to be...)

    Best to you,

    Todd

    bladder

    I can't speak for others but the reason they did the camera in the bladder thing for me is because I continue to have blood in my urine and they are trying to find the cause. 

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