Another Surgery

Well, I had a cancerous mass in my right kidney so I had to have a kidney removed April 9th and am mostly recovered from that, some 6 weeks after the surgery. However, they removed 15 lymph nodes, of which 12 were cancer. Since they couldn't remove any more and were not sure there were any, I have to chemo.

Yesterday I had my first treatment at the chemo lounge at Kaiser Hospital in Hollywood and it lasted about 2 1/2 hours because that had a whole bunch of people - nurses, pharmacists, etc. telling me what to expect and to sign a bunch of things.  Next time it should be less than an hour.

It is now 4 pm on the day after chemo, 25 hours after I left the Chemo lounge, and I don't have any side effects. WHOOPEE!!!!!   One down eight to go.

I hope this all goes as well as the first time. 

All of this seems bad but it isn't. That is one of the things I learned in AA. I do have good doctors and they are optimistic and a wonderful life partner who is there for me 24/7. And I have a Higher Power who has been with me for many years.  She  got through two major surgeries and am OK this time. Plus I didn't die of alcoholism at age 40 or so, and turned 74 this year. Great results of turning things over to God, I would say