It seems sometimes like we have to see an awful lot of physicians. Just a couple weks back we were at Dr. Astwani's office for Chris, Monday we have to see another doctor for Scot. I have been putting off seeing my own doctor and really need to get some tests done as well as my "physical" for the Golden Olympics
August 14th at 1:30 PM we have to take our son Scot to see the Urologist. Scot had his left kidney removed at Emory University Hospital last September. This is a followup appointment to make sure all the cancer is gone. We will be seeing a completely new physician here in Moultrie that has just moved in from Dallas Texas.
Scot had Renal Papillary Carcinoma with 2 tumors located in the left kidney. It was sort of odd how this was found. In late 2010 we noticed that Scot's was having some enlargement in the genitals and took him to see Dr. Kundi who is his GP, Dr Kundi sent him to a Urolgist who ordered a Ultrasound and found that he had a hernia. Scot had to have surgery for that and when he did he had a chest X-Ray. The chest X ray showed what the Radiologist thought was a fluid build up on the left lung.
That fluid build up on the lung turned out to be a mass on his left kidney which was verified through an Ultrasound and a CT Scan of the chest and abdomen. Dr. Kundi then sent him to see Dr. Master in Atlanta at Emory University Hospital. At first they said he probably would not need surgery and we were relieved to some degree. Then the call came to me at the hospital where I work full-time telling me they had scheduled Scot for Kidney removal due to the results of the tests done at Emory.
Ruth Chris and I all headed for Atlanta and got Scot settled in. Ruth stayed with him at the hospital, since Scot has Autism and she was the best person to give him the support he needed. She is also his caregiver and we did not want to break that cycle. Chris and I stayed at a motel during the night a drove over to the hospital during the day. We set in the waiting room while Scot went through surgery. Dr. Master came in and told us that he did extremely well and that the other organs around the bad kidney looked very healthy. He said he wished he had taken some pictures since they were so healthy. That of course made us feel good. Scot was going to be OK. The surgery was on a Thursday and we expected to come home on Monday, but instead Scot recovered so well and quickly that they sent us home Saturday morning.
Bryan and his wife came down from South Carolina to be with his big brother during the surgery, they went back the next day and Chris and I took some time to check out the local Bike shops and other places. We found a really neat shop that was actually a Fuji Dealer which was pretty neat, since the shop I work out of here in Moultrie is also a Fuji Dealer.
Anyway at 1:30 on August 14th we will go for the second follow-up for Scot. We are hoping and praying that the cancer does not come back, but if it does we will deal with it somehow.
I have to make an appointment for my physical before the 19th of September, and we need to take Ruth to get some new glasses and an eye exam. Seems like you start seeing more and more doctors as you get older.
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