I just found out this afternoon that my sister, Jean, has kidney cancer. I didn’t even know such a thing existed. It has spread to the lymph nodes surrounding her kidneys and they believe it may also have spread to her lungs. We’ll know more tomorrow.

This whole scenario is just unbelievable. She had no symptoms that you would expect to be indicative of cancer. She’s been tired ever since we returned from our trip to Phoenix, but thought that had to do with major lack of sleep that weekend. It took me almost a week to get back to normal. She decided to see the doctor due to some shortness of breath. All the talk on the news about lung cancer got her to thinking she should get checked. Thankfully she didn’t do like me and put it off, thinking it would go away.

Much of what I’ve read today on line indicates this is curable. But, it depends on how far it’s progressed. We don’t know that part yet. Treatment involves surgery and followup medications with heavy duty side effects. Apparently this type of cancer can’t be treated with either radiation or chemotherapy.

For anyone reading this, if you are into praying, please say one or two for my sister.