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Hi everyone,

I made it back home yesterday. Doctors wanted to keep me until

Tuesday morning after taking me off the PCA pump, but due to the bad

rain we were expecting, they let me go yesterday afternoon.

The tumours are all gone, and the one near my kidney had actually

attached itself to my right kidney. The doctor debated to take the

whole thing out, but called down a neurologist to have a look to see

what he thought my pain options would be if he kept the kidney in.

They decided to see how I go. They had to basically slice a top

layer of my kidney off to remove the tumour with it, and hope that

the kidney would then crust over and regrow or at least heal. (think

that's as simple as I can put it) *L*

It still gets me when you get one of those up and coming know it all

interns who say..well, is it the cut that's hurting you, and why do

you think your pain is coming from your kidney, and there isn't any

cut in your back, so they didn't touch your kidney and therefore you

can't be having pain from your kidney..and they won't even let you

explain..sheesh.

I would have told him that yes they did slice off the part of my

kidney, no cut in the back because they went through from my front,

and everytime I move or breathe it feels like someone is stabbing me

right in the spot where my kidney is located. Of course then my

surgeon comes up and apologises for the ninkumpoop who told me

otherwise and said he hopes the pain will ease up, else we might

have to go in and remove the kidney after all.

but I can get up and down, and if I use the bathroom often, it seems

to help immensely, so I think all will work out how my doc was

hoping it would.

Laying on the lounge last night was a nuisance, wish those couches

and home beds could mould to whatever position we wanted them to

just like a hospital bed *LOL*...I have to now take Norco for pain,

and Kephlex for an infection they are fighting (no known cause,

probably my port) but whenever I eat or drink something, I swear I

feel like I'm going to have a pancreatitis attack. All pressure

tends to build up there, yet they didn't touch any of my digestive

tract there.

They did have to feel the holes in my abdomen with mesh, so it is

probably that which is unbending and not allowing my stomach or

digestive tract to expand when i'm sitting down. I hope it doesn't

last for long. And of course last night because I managed to sleep

some, I didn't wake up every 4 hours to take pain meds, so this

morning I woke up to full force, no dilaudid in my system left, just

feel like i've been cut open pain, but drugged myself up enough and

more moving around to get comfortable, and was able to wash that

nasty hospital smell from my body.

Next time I get excited for going under the anaesthesia for a

surgery, just slap me silly and remind me of what happens when I

come home from all the happy drugs *LOL*

Hopefully this will be my last surgery for a while. And thanks

everyone for your thoughts and wishes