Finally got home wed. night, actually was surprised they let me go. I was very apprehensive about leaving as well as the drs, but my wife was pretty adamant(got this distaste for hospitals now hehe),but turned out to be the right thing to do as i'm healing a little quicker here.
Of course with me what should've been a 2 night(or so) stay turned out to be 6,UGH!!! First was my dialisys access clotted not once but twice!,and first time was on sat. so vascular team not in til monday.
The second problem that arose was i got constipated and i mean super backed up (sorry,prob TMI ,but it;s a HUGE health issue while in the hospital). The dr showed me an X-ray of my torso and my entire GI tract was one big black cloud,pretty scary.
Anyway the surgery went pretty well and they removed my left kidney without any problems. I asked if i could keep it but wasdenied on that issue as they had to send it off to the pathologists anyway. The doc was kind enough to take a picture of it right before he took it out which i thought was pretty cool. Heres a couple of the pic. Note;its a perfectly healthy looking kidney except that it comes to pass that there is a tiny 3.4cm tumor growing in the middle of it (was entirely encapsulated so never went anywhere else which is best possible news,YEA!).
BEWARE if squeamsh! MY EX-LEFT KIDNEY!
One positive note was there was a dr there who came in to see me who once worked at WHC in the transplant dept and he said he wouldn't be surprised at all if my other kidney kicked in and stared working again, Given how i lost the use of it. That encouraged me as i was feeling pretty low and in a LOT of pain at that time.
Thanks again for all the well wishes everyone!
JOHN
