Thanks everyone. Julie- Brian probably won't be back to work for about 5 weeks, so probably won't get to meet you until then. He has pre-op on Monday and his mom gets in on Tuesday so he took Tuesday and Wednesday off too. Then surgery on Thursday. But I told him to ask for you next time he goes to the clinic for something. Congrats on your TWO babies!!!
To the poster who asked about Brian: we aren't sure on much at this point. He started having chest pain at the end of January which is how all this started. His heart and lungs checked out fine, but they accidentally found this mass on his kidney when they did a CT of his chest. We aren't sure how long it has actually been growing, but it is huge, a little bigger than a baseball and it has taken over half his kidney. We don't even know for sure if it is cancer (but more than likely it is). There was no point in putting him through a biopsy because since it is causing him pain and interfering with his kidney function it has to come out either way. They will test it once they get it out and then we'll know what comes next. But from all the research we've done it looks like his chances are very good even if it is cancer. It hasn't spread and a lot of times surgery alone will take care of it. It isn't CF related because he doesn't have CF, I do. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I just like to come here for support on lots of stuff because you guys all understand!!!
Thanks again evryone! I'm sure we'll come through this just fine with all of your kind thoughts and prayers to help.