John's surgery date is set for Tuesday, November 30th at Overlake Hospital in Bellevue, WA. He is making arrangements to donate some of his own blood in case it is needed during surgery.
John will be talking with his urologist on Tuesday about whether or not to do the risker surgery to get at the lymph nodes as well as remove his right kidney, or to do the less invasive laparoscopic surgery to only remove his kidney.
Today, we'll talk with the cardiologist and get the complete run down on John's heart tests.
Tomorrow, we hope to talk again with the urologist who gave us his second opinion, as he's had time to review John's many radiology scans since 2007.
For what it's worth, my brother had kidney cancer and had the kidney removed about 8 years ago. He has been fine since.
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Thanks Merikay. We appreciate the encouragement and hope. John says it'll take something bigger than a kidney to keep him down!
ReplyDeleteWe'll be praying for John - that is great they can do the kidney laproscopically - much easier! Hope the review of all his scans confirms they don't need to do the lymph nodes so he can stick with the "easier" surgery - if there is ever such a thing as "easy" surgery.
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