Thanks.  Can I ask whether when you had your surgery were you allowed someone to wait with you prior to going down. Sorry if that is an awkward question.  I have tried getting the answer from my hospital but all I have had so far is a letter to say I need to go unaccompanied but it's a generic surgery letter.  I am stressing out about having to wait alone. 

How did your surgery go?  Hope you recovering well.  Mine was cancelled last week so the wait continues.

Surgery went well and as planned my tumour was very big it filled my whole kidney the good thing is it has not gone outside of it there was a little bit of necrosis around the edges meaning that it was in places starting to die it has been there a long time I did not know that I had it till I had awful back ache constantly any way the pain after the operation was not too bad I was on a medicine driver that you can use yourself to administer pain relief I was on fentanyl I was allowed to go home the following day after I had passed enough urine for the nurses to know that all was working ok  At home getting in to bed was painful my husband had to help me I was taking paracetamol and tramadol every 6 hours and found that it was bareable  I had staples in my wound when ch I suppose is about 5 inches in length  I had them removed after 2 weeks that was worse than the pain from the operation but I am 4 weeks out of surgery now and doing well I have been told that I don’t need any other treatment just 6 monthly scans and blood tests so Ai feel extremely lucky I hope your surgery goes ahead soon and that you have a positive outcome all the best xx 

Glad to hear you are well into recovery x