It has been weeks since my last post. My surgery was completed without any complications. The doctor had to cut one of my ribs to gain access to my kidney. That has added to the discomfort in my recovery process. I will say that this has not been an easy road. I should have know that it was going to be difficult when my doctor would ask me every morning if I hated him for all the pain that I am in. He was not lying. Child birth was a walk in the park compared to my partial nephrectomy.
A week after I was released from the hospital I received the phone call about my pathology report. They advised me that I had renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer). Wow!! I always had a feeling that this tumor was malignant, but to have it confirmed was an out of the body experience. I was advised that my doctor was able to remove all of the cancer cells and it had not spread outside my kidney. I will continue to have undergo routine scans to ensure that the cancer cells do not come back.
God is so good!! The first doctor that I saw told me that he thought this was nothing for me to worry about. I was too young to have kidney cancer, and that this mass probably developed during my pregnancy. He did not want me to have to endure such a difficult procedure and have it be a begin tumor. I give thanks that I was persistent in getting a second opinion. Yet, I sometimes cannot help to think what if...what could have happened? So many people just let things go and find themselves wishing they would have went to the doctor sooner...but then its too late. We only have one life to live. We must take care of our bodies! Cancer does not care how old you are, what sex you are, how many children you have, or your ethnicity. I encourage everyone to please make sure you get a routine physical, and take care of yourself!! We only have one life to live!
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