Kidney Salvage (23rd March 2012) and Recovery.....

Well after completing the Rail Trail Duathlon and then the Motatapu Xerra Tri in late Feb & early March I was scheduled to have some pretty major surgery to repair my left kidney that was not doing what it should have been. Lots of ongoing side and flank pain over the last 6months, the pains aggravated with longer sessions of running and biking and drinking lots of fluids.. several scans and a visit to a urologist confirmed tha tthere was some sort of obstruction in the drainage of my left kidney and possibly a renal artery needing to be moved.... so putting full trust in my Surgeon up at mercy Hospital he got in and carried out a 3 hour operation titled as a 'renal pyleoplasty'. After 3 hours of open surgery he had successfully moved and re attached one of the arteries and removed and rebuilt part of the renal pelvis drainage system. So 5 days in hospital with all sorts of hoses and monitors along with a 20cm wound on my tummy side from where the surgeon went in. So a good month of rest has now passed and things are slowly healng as they should, the removal of a stent in another couple of weeks and a scan and I should be good to start resuming some exercise and build back inot things from there with no more niggles form the left kidney!

The very tender wound healing up as it should.