I thought I had bowel cancer due to a total change in bowel habits over the last 7 months. Following a CT scan, which could not be definitively ruled out. But I was contacted by the hospital urologist to say that I had a 6.5 cm tumour on and inside my right kidney, malignant cancer and a small node/tumour in my spleen. I had been getting clear blood and kidney tests, plus CA 125 tests ( as I had had ovarian cancer in 2017 and a total hysterectomy). I had/ have no symptoms and it was just like someone had hit me in the face for no reason. I had another CT scan last Saturday to check out my "upper" organs. Then I got a call to go to see the urologist the next day. Having looked at my stomach and seeing that a previos surgeon, many years ago, had left a massive scar when removing my gall bladder the urologist said he could not do a laparoscopy. He said it was urgent but I had to have open surgery, which is not being carried out at the minute due to Covid 19.
I have spent the last few days trying to make a will and am on automatic pilot, no idea where I am at, still in disbelief. I know I have to have the operation, but I also know, as he told me, that there may well be further treatments depending on the spleen and bowel. How can all the tests I have been having not have picked anything up. Are these new things secondaries to the ovary or is it all just coincidence/bad timing? I have put on a positive face for my 3 " children" who are all married and my partner, but inside I feel lost and fragile.
Sorry just wrote as it happened and how I am feeling today.
