Wednesday is the day

Doctor's appointment was pretty good today I guess. I had some bad news and some really good news (doctor's words) The bad news is that I am going to have to have surgery...which I already knew and the really good news is that they caught this so early that I have a 90% chance of getting rid of it with this surgery. That's not as good as the odds I wrote about yesterday but I feel OK with it.

I was given some choices, one of which was to have a partial nephrectomy, which is just the removal of the tumor from the kidney, or total nephrectomy which is removal of the entire kidney. Due to the placement of the tumor, the doctor was leaning toward the total nephrectomy and I agreed. I was wanting that prior to knowing the placement of the tumor anyway.

My other option was to wait 2 more weeks and have a laproscopic surgery or he can do an open surgery tomorrow (Wednesday). Well, some people think I'm crazy but I was already leaning toward the open surgery so I chose that. Looks like I'm headed to the hospital first thing in the morning. I can't wait. I really was not looking forward to waiting another couple of weeks to get this taken care of.

Anyway that's all for now. I'll be back in a few days...