# Hi Hunni I'm home! ( RCC back) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 17, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106 "2018-10-17T20:45:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/1 "2018-10-17T20:45:58Z")
Hey wait! That wasn’t supposed to happen. You were contained in the capsule, your adjacent adrenal glands were clear, wrapped and popped in a tray away next to the diseased kidney, finally the near distant lymph nodes were all clear enclosed and wrapped in bubble wrap waiting to get wrapped off in sun oil"! And then? Where did you come from? ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/2 "2018-10-17T20:49:59Z")
And over 20 years later! I’m looking at a quick catch you up of lung, bone and metastatic lesions and a whole lot of breathlessness to chose as bed sitters for this anticipated (short-ish) ride. Its just sinking in. I’ll be back with a bit more if you can help with the bizarre. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/3 "2018-10-17T20:53:03Z")
Maybe that Groupon to Dignitas is not gonna be a bad idea:smack: Careful what you wish for ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/4 "2018-10-17T22:46:14Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/5 "2018-10-17T22:58:54Z")
Man, so sorry. ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/6 "2018-10-17T23:33:12Z")
The time scale is prolly starting end of June to July, lost a lot of time here methinks ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/7 "2018-10-18T00:29:30Z")
I’m sorry to hear it. What’s the next step? (My brother, a couple cousins, an uncle, my niece’s wife and my brother in law have all had kidney cancer.) StG ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/8 "2018-10-18T00:46:40Z")
So sorry to hear about this! Good Luck ! (Thanks to StG for translating!) ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/9 "2018-10-18T01:26:59Z")
Without treatment I have maybe 2+ months ( but the probabilities are …) The gold standard is pazopanid which has good chances for antiangienogenic options ( stops blood supplies to tumors) But I may not make the cutoff of saturated 02 oxygen of 94% I don’t even have a lead Onc Lots of stuff to catch up where poss. This should not happen!! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/10 "2018-10-18T01:44:56Z")
No it shouldn’t. Get yourself to a good Oncologist. Quickly. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/11 "2018-10-18T02:27:15Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > So sorry to hear about this! > > Good Luck ! > > (Thanks to StG for translating!) TBH, at first I was thinking Roman Catholic Church. Can you have the 2nd kidney removed and a transplant done, if there are no mets? StG ---
**Author:** ![manila](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e5b9ba/32.png) [@manila](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manila)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 10:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/hi-hunni-im-home-rcc-back/823106/12 "2018-10-18T10:12:54Z")
I broke some ribs last fall and had a nice potential vector filled with RCC suddenly escaping? Not sure.