Hello to all you lovely caring people, thank you all for your thoughts today they really did help, the verdict was that the kidney will have to go, the specialist was a lovely man and was really considerate, and as (his words) I have been through so much with being given wrong treatments etc, ( I won't bore you with all that) he will give me extra special care, he is transferring me to a private hospital where he also works (for the NHS) and he will do the op. himself, hopefully it will be keyhole surgery and I won't have to be in hospital for too long. He seemed to think it will be around March time when I'll have the op. Again thank you all for being such lovely people, I'll let you know when I get the date come. JAB 