Good luck with the scan. I always get nervous, it's perfectly natural. I try and tell myself, there's nothing i can do to change the results and the scan itself isn't painful. If a scan finds anything, then it's better than not knowing whats going on, because you can only deal with the things you know about.
An incidental finding of a possible small RCC is a real stroke of good luck. It might not seem it at the time you find out, but it gives you a much better outlook than if you had found it a few years further down the line when it had started to cause you problems.
I found that regular exercise helped me too. I played football but didn't do much else. When i was diagnosed I decided to go walking every day. I would walk 45 mins every morning and afternoon. I think it made me a bit fitter (and helped prepare me for surgery) but it also gave me some free time away from the internet and in the fresh air to clear my head. Sometimes I would listen to podcasts on a variety of topics I was interested in, other times I would just enjoy the peace and quiet. Doing it regularly also helped me build a routine so I started to look forward to that time to myself as well. I found it useful for my physical and mental wellbeing.
After my surgery I was able to build back up my fitness quickly. I got back to playing full contact football. The surgery hasn't stopped me, so even if it is RCC, you've caught it early, you'll need surgery but if you are otherwise fit and healthy, you can have a pretty good expectation of getting back to where you were before the surgery. That's the thing I find hardest to get my head round sometimes. I had a condition that would've killed me if I left it alone, but I was never actually sick...I had to have this surgery that knocked me back a bit, and had to recover from that, but Kidney Cancer hasn't slowed me down.
