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100% Correct.bcubed wrote: Thoughts and Prayers with you and your Dad! September63 is right, hopefully they have caught it early and everything will be ok. The spleen isn't so bad either, many people live without a spleen. Maybe a better way to look at it is that if his spleen had not been pushing on his stomach and giving him the pain in the first place he never would have found out about the mass on his kidney. This would have allowed the mass to keep growing until it had spread and gotten worse.
I was also kicking cats... but they didn't fight back so it wasn't as fun.Trueblue23 wrote: Don't worry about dude, we all have our ways of ridding ourselves of frustration. No big deal buddy.
Keep up the good work, and i'll be sending positive thoughts to you, your dad, and the rest of your family. 
You have to hunt down bigger cats to kick...the ones that could take your foot off in one bite make for a good challenge.LJ wrote:I was also kicking cats... but they didn't fight back so it wasn't as fun.Trueblue23 wrote: Don't worry about dude, we all have our ways of ridding ourselves of frustration. No big deal buddy.
LJ wrote: Thanks guys. I guess I will update since the thread was brought back to life.
He went to the urologist on Wed and he basically told him anything that size on your Kidney is Cancer. The odd thing about Kidney Cancer though is that everything is considered precancerous and the cancer can stay non-metastatic for a long long time (contains itself to the kidney). Luckily with this kind of cancer in the stage he has, they just take the kidney out and the cancer is 100% gone. Luckily they caught it in time.
Wow, did they catch it in stage 4 or something?Con_Alma wrote: Glad to hear the good news LJ.
I lost my father several years ago due to renal failure from kidney cancer. It was the most difficult thing I have ever experienced emotionally.
Keep fighting the good fight.
Ah. Yeah sounds like he was further along than my dad seems to be. They are just going to take the whole Kidney then seal off everything.Con_Alma wrote: Had surgery once to remove a tumor. It was performed laparoscopically so it was minimally invasive. ...seemed to be successful. He was 81 at the time. Additional lesions and tumors presented themselves on both kidneys. One entire kidney needed to be removed but his age and strength was a huge concern for such a surgery. Meanwhile a tumor discovered right near the lymph node caused serious concern for a spread throughout the body. His kidneys began failing before he could get strong enough to elect the surgery. He was 84 at the time.
You and your father can beat this. The kidneys are so delicate of an organ...but God gave you two. He's going to be fine. You must always believe that. Keep fighting.
