Hello Chris9, 

A warm welcome to our forum. I hope you won't mind but I have changed the title of your thread so that it describes your situation and therefore should attract more relevant replies from other members affected by metastatic kidney cancer.  It's been over 10 years now since your diagnosis - what a rollercoaster it must all have been for you and I wanted you to know that you are not alone and hopefully you will meet other members who have been affected by kidney cancer and they will share their story with you. 

I hope that you are not in too much pain following that broken femur which was caused by a tumour - poor you I can understand why you are feeling incapacitated and miserable. I hope you recover quickly from it and recover your mobility. 

If you ever wanted to get in touch with one of our cancer nurses if you had any question or anything you would like to discuss, you can do so by ringing their free helpline on 0808 800 4040 - their helpline is open Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. 

I hope that your sister and brother are looking after you well and keeping you good company during this difficult time. Best of luck for the radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments which are starting soon! Keep in touch if you can we would love to hear how things progress for you and I hope that the treatment will be a success.

Best wishes, 

Lucie, Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi Chris , well done for sticking in there mate , what were you diagnosed with at the start of your journey , which stage I mean and grade ?

I honestly can't remember don't think I really took it in cos had a partial nephrectomy and was fine for six years!