Two friends, Bob and Carolyn, asked me about my (left) kidney. I figure that if they have questions, maybe others will also have questions, so I decided to do a time-line review of my left kidney situation.<\/p>\n
This episode happened during my visit and stay in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia, during August of 2017.<\/p>\n
Aug 14 .. Upon awakening, I noticed some pain \/ discomfort in my lower left abdomen area. I took it easy the rest of the day.<\/p>\n
Aug 15 .. The pain \/ discomfort remained. I cancelled a fully booked and paid for train trip into Southern Russian Siberia to visit friends in the city of Irkutsk. This was a major decision because a friend from Mongolia was going with me so I had to cancel his trip as well. I did not want to go into Russian Siberia and have a medical crisis.<\/p>\n
I went to a hospital \/ clinic in Ulaanbaatar and was seen by a doctor. After a hands-on and ultrasound examination, he diagnosed my problem as one involving my left kidney. He then sent me to another hospital for a CT Scan.<\/p>\n
Aug 16 .. I saw my doctor and he advised me that the CT Scan showed a possible tumor in my left kidney and insisted that I return to the United States for further evaluation.<\/p>\n
Patti flew into action and arranged an appointment for me with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.<\/p>\n
I flew from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to Hong Kong, China.<\/p>\n
Aug 29 .. I flew from Hong Kong and met Patti in Seattle, Washington. We two then flew to Minneapolis, Minnesota. A friend drove our truck from Royal Oak to Minneapolis and met us at the airport. We three over-nighted in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
Aug 30 .. We drove to Rochester, Minnesota, the home of the Mayo Clinic.<\/span><\/p>\n Sep 1 .. After getting a CT Scan at the Mayo Clinic, my doctor said that the CT Scan showed a liquid filled cyst NOT a tumor. The chance of cancer is less than 1%. The chance of problems with performing a biopsy is 12%. I agreed not to pursue a biopsy at this time.<\/p>\n His Prognosis : We will wait for six months and re-evaluate the situation then<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n Both Patti and I were so stunned with this good \/ great news that we were numb. We felt at the very least a biopsy would be performed.<\/p>\n This brings you all up-to-date on my kidney issue. Thanks so much for you interest.<\/p>\n Smiles,<\/p>\n Patti and Cap<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two friends, Bob and Carolyn, asked me about my (left) kidney. I figure that if they have questions, maybe others will also have questions, so I decided to do a… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kidney-tumor","category-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28851,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28846\/revisions\/28851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babakaps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}