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.
Click on your more button at the top of your post, then click edit, then click on your photograph, a the top of the page you will see 'edit image' click on there and resize your photograph. Hope this helps cause I am not too good with this new format, it took ages for my 'More' button to work, changed my search engine then the more button worked lo!
Maybe we will see the better half when you have done this, only joking Bob it is a wonderful pictures.
Hope you are both enjoying this beautiful weather, long may it last.
When you paste your photo into ypur reply box, click on it and you can resize it before posting. if you look at the bottom of the reply box, My 'more' button doesn't work!
i meant to say - if you look at the bottom of the 'reply 'box when you are resizing the photo, there is a line there which will show you the parameters of the box.
Just come over to say that I saw your pics on f/b, recognised all the places, wish I could've been there to meet you, maybe another time if you get there again?
