Well, I don't really want to post this, but here goes:
I am going to the hospital Tuesday to have my left kidney out. The urologist is 95% certain it is renal cell carcinoma, which has a very good prognosis when detected before it spreads.
So I am supposed to be happy that I had SCC, because otherwise I would not have had the PET/CT scan which detected the RCC.
Also my father is dying in Finland. He is really just sleeping away, cannot eat or drink any more, and is receiving nothing intravenously other than pain madication. My four brothers and sisters take turns at his bedside (my mother is in another hospital room, recovering from a fall). But chances are good he will be gone by the time I come home from the hospital.
Too much!!!!
I will survive, and life will still be good. My daughter just got engaged to a very good young man.
Leena