Steve - bladder

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RHSteve,Wow, you're getting hit from all sides, mister!Take confidence, though. Sounds like you've got a good medical team there who are communicating with each other, that's so important.Take it as easy as you can, mister, try not to stress too much. We're always here for you.LHSteveLife is much more fun when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party. Jimmy Buffett [ ] Update

Hello to all,

It has been awhile now since I have checked in with the group, so I am taking this opportunity to talk about my developments. This is about my problem I developed concerning blood in my urine. I don't know if this is related to the HCV or not but the last I reported was that I had a scope done in my bladder and they found a tumor that was bleeding. So I had a surgery done just this past Friday at the Mayo Clinic in MN. As I write this, on Monday morning, I am still sitting on my hospital bed, waiting to get checked out. We have had a pretty major winter storm come through and I have been stuck here because of the weather. I think they got around 17 inches of snow on Sat. Anyway, when they did the surgery, they found a second small tumor and they removed that along with the first one. they also put a stint in the opening from the kidney to the bladder(temporary) and I am waiting for the pathology report to come back to see how much cancer there was and if they will have to do more. The urologist seems to be leaning toward total removal of my bladder with a stoma put in and an external bag...for the rest of my life!!!! I am trying to deal with that right now and am hoping for some less extreme solutions. The Hepatology team is also going to have a say in what happens, so all I can do is wait and take it day at a time. I will try to post now and again to let ya'll know what happens.

thanks for listening!

RHSteve