Sylkykat (she/her) 📚🖖🦉🐱☕️🇺🇦<p>Well, had my pre-op meeting with my <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Urologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Urologist</span></a>. Saw the pics from my <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CTScan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CTScan</span></a>. Dang, that mass is big! Saying it was 4 inches long isn't the same as seeing that it's the size and approximate shape of a large orange. And, with a mass that size, it's 99% sure that it's <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>. On the upside, my chest x-ray was clear, and there's no sign of any spread beyond the mass itself, so with surgical removal of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/kidney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kidney</span></a>, that will be that. No <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/chemo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chemo</span></a> or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/radiation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>radiation</span></a> necessary, just periodic scans. /1</p>