BOB JK My diary of kidney cancer (to be continued)
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Hi, My name is Bob and I live in Cambridgeshire. I am married with an 8 yr old daughter and three older step sons. Up untill the end of last year everything was tickety boo having recently moved to a new house which we love. Work was busy but enjoyable. I am Manager of an electrical companys maintenance department and my Wife, Linda was enjoying her job as a Nurse. The three boys are buying there own house nearby and all work locally. In November I went to my Doctors with a small "cyst" on my chest. After a couple of referals and many Xrays, pet scans, bone scans and CT scans I was told the news everybody dreads. My lump on the chest was a secondary cancer of which the primary was in my left Kidney. I was fast tracked to the Royal Brompton, under the expert care of Mr Laddas who informed a long and complicated operation would need to be carried out to remove the bone tumor and surrounding bone which involved two ribs,my collar bone and chest bone. I did not have time to panic, the operation was carried out the next day over 10 hrs. After nearly two weeks in the Brompton I am recovering well from this op but I have since been told that the Cancer is in both kidneys as well as small mets in both lungs. It seems at the moment further ops are out the question and i have been put on the drug Sutent. I am one week into this and so far so good. I do not know what the future holds but I have to remain positive.
Cubejack, Sally, how long have you been on here, that was sneeky. Lovely to hear from you and thanks for my pressies.
I have had a lovely day so far. I awoke early and. resisted the temptation to go downstairs and make a cuppa, eventually, after no sign of life from Linda, I announced I would go down and make a cuppa, at which point she did get up and make me my birthday cuppa, Kate then appeared and we all had a nice group hug in bed. I have opened my pressies and Linda brought me a lovely oil painting of a seaside scene wihich shows a sandy beach, sea and two people walking. I look at it and imagine us on that beach without a care in the world, a lovely dream. I will hang it in our bedroom. I had lots of other pressies too numerous to mention but all gratefully received. I have tried to type this post three times now and each time the cat has walked over the keyboard and reset the page. We have just taken Kate to school, where I got more cards and now we are going to relax, maybee go out for a short walk and later a tad of lunch.
To Jacton (jackie)
So sorry to hear about Tonys passing. My thoughts are with you and I wil indeed keep fighting.
Sue x
