Thank You
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2014 5:10 pm
I just want to thank everyone for the thoughts and prayers. My stay at the Mayo Clinic has come to an end and I finally came home yesterday.
Long story short, I had a mass on my left adrenal gland. This was producing to much Aldosterone, which in turn was causing my kidneys to dump all my potassium, among other things. After numerous tests, we decided to have it removed. Normally it would have been an easy operation, done with a scope in a few hours. However, they had a hard time seeing the gland (its tucked away on top of your kidney) so I had to have an open surgery.
7 days and one gnarly scar later, they released me from the hospital. Another week of blood labs and I was cleared to go home. Needless to say I'm pretty sore, tired and beat up. But coming home is the best medicine.
I'm gonna give myself plenty of time to heal and build my strength back up, and hopefully I'll be back on the water by the end of the year.
Thanks again to those of you that kept my spirits up with the texts and pictures. It meant a lot.
Long story short, I had a mass on my left adrenal gland. This was producing to much Aldosterone, which in turn was causing my kidneys to dump all my potassium, among other things. After numerous tests, we decided to have it removed. Normally it would have been an easy operation, done with a scope in a few hours. However, they had a hard time seeing the gland (its tucked away on top of your kidney) so I had to have an open surgery.
7 days and one gnarly scar later, they released me from the hospital. Another week of blood labs and I was cleared to go home. Needless to say I'm pretty sore, tired and beat up. But coming home is the best medicine.
I'm gonna give myself plenty of time to heal and build my strength back up, and hopefully I'll be back on the water by the end of the year.
Thanks again to those of you that kept my spirits up with the texts and pictures. It meant a lot.
