We've learned that my husband's left kidney has to be removed. This all came about quite suddenly...no pain ...he just started urinating blood about 3 weeks ago. OK, I'm in agreement that the kidney has to go...but I'm concerned because I feel they need to get in there and take the darn thing out of my husband NOW...before it spreads.....
The good news is that all the CT scans, bones scans, MRI, x-rays, etc. etc. etc. say he has 2 tumors in his left kidney but the cancer does not appear to have spread anywhere else. So they are going to take out the kidney....yay!!! But, wait....the surgery is not going to happen for another 5 weeks!!!!! First they want him to donate 3 pints of his own blood, and then the urologist and general surgeon got together on a date. Shouldn't this thing come out NOW..????? NOT 5 weeks from NOW...?????????