Made it home at last!!!

Thanks to the skill of my surgeons, the love of my family & friends, and the big mojo of the Universe, I sit at my own desk, in my own office, in my own house, less than a week after having my left kidney removed...pretty surreal, I must say! We got home a few hours ago, and after a nap & a 500 mg Tylenol, I feel pretty good...on a scale of 1-10. I'd rate myself a 6 right now. In a couple weeks, I'll be fit as a fiddle

My surgeon, Dr. Coleman, gave me a DVD of the actual operation, since they video all proceedures. He edited it down to about six minutes of some amazing little tools being used to excise the tumor, while a tiny TV camera illuminated the whole thing...really freaky-looking...the tumor looked just like chicken...hmmmmm?!? Wonder what THAT means? I mean, seriously, it looked like an oven-stuffer roaster...I don't know what I expected, some evil-looking blob of blackened rot or something, but this thing was alive & doing fine (unfortunately for me!). Oh, well, it's a done deal now, by cracky!!! Hopefully, I won't have any evidence of metastisis on my pathology report, which I won't have for about a week...more news to come!!!

Mike