Welcome to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

Patsy genuinely has an amazing story that she's actually grateful about, despite all the pain

we found out about this morning about kidney stones.

You wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for a kidney stone, Patsy.

No, kidney stone saved my life.

So, what was it? Six, seven years years ago i had what i thought was a kidney

infection and um i was here at work and i just read my eight o'clock bulletin went to the bathroom and

really was unwell and rang my doctor and said oh i think i've got an infection he said come in

he said oh yeah you've got a kidney infection i said, come in. He said, oh, yeah,

you've got a kidney infection. I'll put you on some antibiotics. Anyway, it didn't get better.

And a couple of days later, I went back to him. There was a few other signs. And he said,

look, let's just do a scan. I think you've got a kidney stone. And I said to him, my brother had had, my

eldest brother had kidney cancer 12 months before and it can run among siblings, but there was

no reason for alarm. Yeah. So I said to our GP, we've got a wonderful family GP in the West. I said,

oh, I probably should mention that my brother

had, you know, kidney cancer a year ago. And he said, oh, I'm sure, I'm sure it's nothing that,

you know, that bad. If there's anything there on the scam, we'll see it. Well, lo and behold,

I had the scan. And yes, I had a kidney stone. I had about a 7 mil kidney stone in my left kidney, but I also had a tumour

right in the middle of it. So it was a bit of a shock, but, you know, when you hear the C word,

it's like, it's terror. I can only imagine, Pat, it is. It's what all of us fear, isn't it? That's a

horrible thing about cancer. We all know what it can do. And so, yeah, we all dread that.

Yeah. And shadow or an x-ray or waking up one morning with a pain under your armpit. Yeah,

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