Well, it was a week ago when I was laying in the ‘Recovery Room’ in the Milstein Building of the Columbia University/Urology section, on the 3rd floor. I remember that my throat hurt terribly because of the tube that was inserted through my month to help me breathing during the laparoscopic nephrectomy. I recall saying to myself: “here I am now, a kidney cancer patient with Renal Cell Carcinoma, who just had his left kidney removed, and all I’m worrying about is my darn throat.” I...


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