we had all had a good xmas steve had started with pain in his side and not being able to wee to hospital again more scans etc we were told that steve had serveral tumours on his spine and would need a op to remove as much as possible steve turned and told the dr ok lets do it I not giving up the fight steve had the op the tumours turned out to be NF NEUROFIBROMAS. begni tumours unlucky for steve when the surgon took as much of the tumour away as poss it had damaged the nerves cells so steve couldnt pass wee normaly he had to have another op to have a pelvic cather in so he had 2 large op within a month we were going crazy but not steve he kept that smile on his face and we were out of hospital within 3 week.