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First of all, thank you for your good wishes for my misbehaving left kidney. I’m happy to report the surgery went well! Recovery, however, has been much like this fickle spring weather—up and down. Although the incision in my back was the diameter of a pencil eraser, the kidney stone was the size of a […]

First of all, thank you for your concern and responses to the news about my misbehaving left kidney and her two uninvited guests. I have some updates! The cancer risk for the cyst on my kidney is less than 5%, my son and I were relieved to learn when we finally met with the specialist. […]

Bless her heart. My left kidney is misbehaving. During one of my routine urological exams, we discovered my small kidney stone—one we’ve been monitoring for years—has been joined by a much larger brother. This fellow is so large that we’ll need surgery to remove the uninvited guest. (A PCNL –percutaneous nephrotomy– procedure, for those who […]