or "living lazy" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] ok… hit the wall… and since there is a real and logical pause in the story here – I'll take advantage of it and post nothing at all ! [/expand]
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Day 19 – Post-prostate Progress
or "living limp" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] yeah… I really should have changed the title a few days back, since from here on we are really talking about life without a prostate – and "Post-prostate" just rolls off your tongue better than "prostateless" – and the latter …
Day 18 – Prostate Precision
or "how close did you cut?" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] as stated, the reason for the follow-up visit with the urologist/surgeon was two-fold – to have my catheter removed and to learn how successful the surgery was in eradicating all trace of prostate cancer from my body! …
Day 17 – Prostate Profiling
or "what's 4 cm in inches" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] ok… time to get down to serious issues – like catheters 😉 If you've never had a first-hand experience, you may want to pay close attention (or not!). If, as in my case, you have a catheter inserted …
Day 16 – Prostate Post-Op II
or "I told you so!" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] despite the discomfort, the "fun" of babysitting a kilometre of catheter tubing and having to give up all that delightful hospital cuisine – it was still a wonderful experience to be home again and resting in my own …
Day 15 – Prostate Post-OP
or "redefining terms" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] this is all, no doubt, well known to those of you who have travelled this way before, but being my first surgery, I found that a number of terms get totally redefined during a hospital stay like this. First …
Day 14 – Prostate Privation
or "the real deal" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] so the big day arrives… and to be honest I don't recall anything about it until I came to following the surgery! I can only share what my wife wrote in summary of the day "as she experienced it" …
Day 13 – Prostate Privation Prep2
or "un-Great Expectations" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] you know how they have books like "What to Expect when you're Expecting" that top the best seller lists… where are the "what to expect when you're going for surgery" books? Oh, sure – they give you a 1-page poorly photo-copied …
Day 12 – Prostate Privation Prep
or "adios priapism" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] and "hola surgery" or more precisely "radical prostatectomy" – well… it's not really all that precise – it's just redundant, because there's no such thing as a "non-radical" prostatectomy! I mean, really… how could the removal of an organ that basically …
Day 11 – Prostate Pragmatism
or "what's the rush?" [expand title=”Show this Post” swaptitle=”Hide this Post” rel=”prostate-highlander” findme=”auto” trigclass=”noarrow prostate_text colomat-trigpos”] prag·ma·tism – an approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application. 24 hours… damn – I'm reading these emails I sent to all my friends …