Lymph nodes

CT last friday. Going to see oncologist this morning. Very anxious but i want to know. Tree is up and decorated some good news would be great. But if not early detection is good too.

Jack
Sorry your going thru this too, i wish something or a miracle cure would appear out of the blue and we'd both could just enjoy our families with out the shroud of cancer hovering above us. I await my next CT
With anxiety but has to be done. But that's 3 weeks away so until then my friend

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY! we are still in this. Fight!!!

Lotech,

So glad to see you on the board.

I know you can hang in there. Sometimes it seems that we just have to adjust our idea of what would constitute a GREAT outcome.

My situation changed a month ago, and we are still sorting out a new game plan.

I have only one kidney, following my accident in the past, and that kidney has developed RCC - Renal Cell Carcinoma, a distinctly different cancer from the CIS & papillary bladder cancer (the bladder has been free from cancer for 6 months now, after continuing BCG and adding other drugs to the mix.

The roller coaster ride hit a real high on 6 months free of bladder cancer, but took the plunge on the Kidney cancer.

The new kidney doc is hopeful for keeping at least enough of the kidney to make a working bladder useful.

I put off everything until after Thanksgiving, the time when all my kids make the annual pilgrimage to farm, and the grandkids and grandpa have a great time doing farm and rural activities.

The near future of pre-surgery chemo, bcg maintenace for the bladder, and partial kidney removal comes as quite a shock from the hoped for course - as you well know. But, on the bright side, worse come to worse, for me, there is the possibility of doing without any kidney, lose the bladder, and move to dialysis as a life enabling plan.

I'm not ready to cash-in the chips and move on to whatever is waiting beyond, so I accept what is offered as an additional chance to continue to enjoy the gift of life and family.

Lotech, I wish the same for you and yours.

Best,
Jack

Alan,

Me too I'm so tired of this. Walking around with tubes and bags hanging off my body and carrying a pump that puts 24hr antibiotic in my chest. I'm at white end! Wife took today's news ruff doc gave her a hug told her not to worry. Never did that before. I don't know this is just getting old. Still fighting but I'm getting tired.