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Ruisi connected a friend of his extended family who had also had a kidney removed due to cancer and, like Ruisi, spent a significant amount of time at or near ground zero after the Septemattacks on the World Trade Center, the friend as a firefighter and Ruisi as an elevator/escalator technician with the City of New York, where days spent shoveling debris, ash, and soot out of damaged subway stations left him with a black face. Talking with a fellow patient was helpful. She accompanied him to appointments and researched information online and beyond. This was a help for his wife, too – his “wingman” – who he leaned on the most for emotional support and to help manage the kidney cancer. Ruisi’s intense reaction to the recurrence led him to seek even more support from his family, including his 81-year-old mother, who came to New York from Florida to stay with him, and his sister, who made orange ribbon kidney cancer awareness shirts. We went from ‘kidney is fine’ to ‘it has to come out’ – that was an emotional swing.” “After the scan this February, it killed my head. I was looking good, I felt like I was 35 again,” said Ruisi, who is 52.
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Before and after the first surgery, I felt like a million bucks. “When I first got diagnosed, mentally I was fine. Several consultations and multiple opinions later, his second surgeon told him the left kidney needed to be removed completely. After a year of clean scans, seeing the tumors again was jarring.