Well I'm back at home now, with a shaved Care Bear tummy and a weird 5"+ long tummy 'symbol' (incision) made out of stitches.

I'm sore, fatigued, and huge due to constipation from the narcotics I was on.

My left kidney is gone, removed in the whole instead of the original partial nephrectomy.

My numbers for Creatinine thankfully are looking very good, so the possibility of dialysis looks to be remote.

Now I just have to heal.

I have the general anaesthesia malady of altered taste and smell, so currently many foods/drinks don't taste right at ALL! This will subside over the following weeks. Some foods taste ok, some are repellent. Sugar, garlic, strawberry (fruit juices), chocolate, eggs, onions, olives taste fine. Meats in the whole smell rancid and unappealing, colas taste terrible.

Urethral catheterisation, ow ow ow ow ow ow ow ow!