One Year Anniversary Coming Up.....

Hi all. I'm feeling really scared because the one year anniversary from my partial nephrectomy is coming up. Not sure if my feelings are normal. I 'm going down the mortality road of darkness and I'm so mad at myself for doing that. I keep asking myself will it come back? How do we get past these haunting feelings? Is this how all cancer survivors feel? Any bit of wisdom is always wecome.......
Thank you and I wish you perfect health.

Hi Darcy,

My name is Christina and my boyfriend had surgery for Cholangiocarcinoma 1/5/07. They removed all of the cancer but found 1 positive lymph node. This scares the crap out of me. I know exactly how you feel. Anytime he does not feel well, we get scared that he is going to have a recurrence. The doctor said this is likely to happen. He is also coming up on his year anniversary and I don't think there is anyway to get those thoughts out of your head. Whenever those thoughts come into my head, I try to wash them away. I put my faith in the LORD and put his life in GOD's hands. I try to exchange the bad thoughts with good thought like "he is here and alive and I am thankful." I try to be thankful for every extra day we have. I think you should try to do the same. Start living. Put your life in God's hands trust that he brought you through this for a reason. Remember, you are a survivor!

Don't just pray for a miracle, expect one.

Christina

Thank you Christina!

Hi Darcy,

I had my left kidney and adrenal gland removed in the summer of 2006 and ended up spending 2 1/2 months in the  hospital. I felt the same way as you worried when it came time for the anniversary of my surgery. I too felt very negative about what the future held for me with all that had gone on and what I had read about KCC. My sister has helped me a lot being that she is an Oncology RN back in MO. She has shared a lot of information with me dealing with the side effects we go through. She has called me every week since I got out of the hospital just to see how I am doing. This group and support groups you will find at some of the hospitals are also a big help in providing information about what we are going through.

 I am still undergoing treatement to control the cancer having started my 10th cycle on Sutent yesterday. This website has helped me tremendously by sharing what I was going thru and reading the experiences of others. I am managing the side effects very well and I go in right before Christmas for my next CAT scans. I have read stories of others who have had it worse then I have and are doing just fine. Although I have read of others who have not done so well. The best thing I can tell you is to look to the future and make plans. Things you have wanted to do/experience and have fun. We (my wife and I) bought a sailboat and have fun taking it out. Something I also wanted to do. Anyway, good luck and keep in mind you're not alone.

 Terry 

Thank you Terry!I agree with all you said. I wish you perfect health.

Dear Darcy,

 my dad got sick from RCC in '91, had a nefrectomy of left kidney that wasn't spred on limfnods nor had any methastasis. At 2004, after 13 years the cancer came back. He did his check up every year on his kidney and liver. No one ever told us that it can come back after so long.It came bak on his lungs, so please do your check up every year on lungs and brain because these are the first places that you should check and everithing will be ok. We didn't pay attention when he started to caugh knowing that he never smoked and we saw that something is wrong only when he got methatasis on his hand. If I only knew this before we could have got it on time. As I'm reading all this experiences I can see that most of the people had a similar experience so don't be scared just check your lungs every year and you will be saved.

Kind regards,

  Anna