Toe Pain to Kidney Cancer to 4 Days Left to Live – This Man's Story Could Save Your Life
A New Jersey man battling what he thought was the slow creep of pain from his toe found himself on the brink of death once he finally learned what was wrong with him. Richard Bernstein’s ordeal began with pain in his…
A New Jersey man battling what he thought was the slow creep of pain from his toe found himself on the brink of death once he finally learned what was wrong with him.
Richard Bernstein’s ordeal began with pain in his right toe.
“I went to my podiatrist. I thought I had fractured the toe, but he couldn’t find anything wrong with it,” Bernstein said, of Montvale, New Jersey, according to the New York Post.
But it hurt. And hurt. Two years later, his ankle hurt as well. A sports medicine doctor suggested it could be something called stenosis, that physical therapy could potentially treat.
Nothing worked.
Then in March, his right leg became swollen, prompting a visit to his doctor.
The doctor took a scan of his abdomen and then sent Bernstein to Dr. Michael Grasso, Director of Urology at Phelps Hospital.
“He told me I had four days to live,” Bernstein said.
Bernstein had a large cancerous kidney