For the next 14 days the DWP will be selling Awareness Shirts for Kidney Cancer. One part of Kidney Cancer tht many do not know about or talk about is the extreme lack of energy one gets…I found out about a good way to describe this first with a thing called the spoon theory (http://www.butyoudontlooksick.com/articles/written-by-christine/the-spoon-theory/) […]
One Month Update and Thanksgiving
So here I am, the day before Thanksgiving, coming to you all to give an update of my health now that we are a little over a month out of surgery and to give a bit of a shout out about who and what I am thankful for during this time of Thanksgiving. So first […]
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Respect your nurses!
Hello again everyone I’m dropping this new blog off here because this is a subject that has been nagging me ever since I was in the hospital for my surgery. The respect that should be given to our health care professionals and often isn’t. So lets dive right down into this story of bad manners […]
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A day in the life of a nephrectomy patie...
Hey there everyone I just wanted to drop by and leave this little post here. A lot of people reading my blogs lately are people from some of the Kidney Cancer forums I have joined who may not have gone through their Kidney Removal yet so there are a few things I will be going […]
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Cancer Wars VII: The Bowel Awakens
Hey there everyone just wanted to drop by and add another little thing about the fun surgery I had, in this case the “sleeping bowel”. I told you I would try and update with basically everything I was going through this way if you too are going through this or know someone else that is […]
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Surgery, a timeline of events
For those of you that have been following my cancer blog you will undoubtedly know that I was going to have surgery to take out my kidney. I had my right kidney, right adrenal gland and a handful of lymph nodes in that area taken out. This past wednesday October 14th I went into Shands […]
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A warning about Iron and Chemo
Hey guys as I am about to head into surgery in a few days I thought about something else that has happened during this whole ordeal that I want to go and address so that maybe you guys can not panic like we had in the beginning. The warning is for the terror of IRON […]
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Some more good news and surgery
So I am here today to give a quick little update before I have my surgery to remove the cancer and the kidney that it’s in. On October 2nd I went to do my pre-op testing and talks. This included yet another blood test, yet another CT scan, a talk with the urologist who is […]
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Fears and Surgery
Well gang things are getting closer and closer to the final stages of the first stage of Cancer Warfare! To say things have been an emotional roller coaster is just putting it lightly. Every day I sit here afraid yet try to live my life as though nothing were wrong. You see that’s the real […]
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Good news and some time off
Well last week was a doozy for me for running all over the place. On Tuesday I had a new CT scan, on Thursday I had a visit with my Primary doctor and then Friday saw me going back to Gainesville to see a new Urologist. So basically on Tuesday I went up to Shands […]
