Two Plus Two Newer Archives - lol kyro has a.....tumor?

I debated whether or not I was going to put this out here, but I have absolutely no reason to I guess. POG has been an absolutely huge part of my life. Its inclusion into the 2+2 forums came at one of the darkest times of my life. I was a college dropout, I was losing the love of my life, my relationship with my parents was strained, and I was rarely happy. POG was my escape, and it still is to a certain extent. Things have been far better now, but I’ve become friends with some great people through this forum, that I never would have if it wasn’t created. You guys are pretty much a second family to me, and despite my overaggressive ways at times, I care about the lot of you, and so I feel you have a right to know this.

For the past month, I’ve had occasional blood in my urine. This was always accompanied by extreme (and I mean extreme. Think sitting in a car having drank a 64oz soda and having 5 miles to the next rest stop. Now multiply that by 500.) pain in my abdominal area. This would occur every 10 minutes for an hour and a half one weekend. It eventually went away, and then it would come back the next weekend out of nowhere.

For the past month I’ve assumed I’ve had kidney stones that were just being stubborn and didn’t want to pass. Eventually I got referred to a urologist. I went to the urologist yesterday and gave them a urine sample. The initial test they did said it looked clean and they would run some further tests. (Also, apparently I passed the prostate exam with flying colors. Who the hell grows up saying “I wanna check guys’ prostates!”)

However, I just received a call from my urologist. Apparently a second test run on my urine showed small signs of a protein that is often linked to tumors. It’s 90% accurate.

I have to go back tomorrow to give them another sample, for which they will run further tests to figure out what’s going on.

I have no idea what’s happening, to be honest. All I know is, I could have a tumor in the kidneys, and for the next week it’s all that’s going to be on my mind without really having any clue.

Frankly, I’m petrified. I promise to keep you all updated much like the ‘lol kyro has a date thread.’ Like I said, you all are my long-distance family that I probably spend way too much time with, but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I love you guys.

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