I must admit having a catheter fitted permanently was a relief not having to get up in the night for a pee as I had been getting up 4 or 5 times a night, and during the day suddenly having to rush to find non existing public loo's. Also when calling on clients I was driving miles to find a bush with leaves on before going into see my clients, in the end I was peeing in a bottle lol. Not to say what a catheter does for your sex life!
PROSTATE CANCER VIDEO An appointment had been made at the Churchill Hospital to have a biopsy and on the day I was feeling anxious I had googled all the alarmist comments and how painful etc. it is to have done, (as you do treating google as an all encompassing answer to all things medical!) By the time I arrived at the hospital with my girlfriend I had worked myself into a nervous wreck, I could empathise completely with murderer's going to the electric chair, or prisoners of old going into the Tower of London for torture, I was imagining the pain even before I was touched! I must admit I'm a coward when I'm visiting the dentist and would rather let my bad tooth work it's own way out over months then let a dentist lose on it! They say blue eyed people feel pain more than people with other colours, as I have blue eyes I think that justifys me being a coward!
Of course the doctor was running late on his appointments so my anxiety was prolonged! Eventually I was called in to the torture room luckely there were no instruments of torture on view. Well I don't know what I was worrying about It was a walk in the park to what I had built myself up to expect,apart from the embarassment and the feeling like someone flicking a finger inside me ( I assure you I'm not talking from previous experience lol !) it wasn't too bad, I had about 12-14 samples taken.
I was sent home to await the results of the biopsy and whether I would need an operation or not. Having cancer controls your life in stages of awaiting the next test and then the next result.
Of course the doctor was running late on his appointments so my anxiety was prolonged! Eventually I was called in to the torture room luckely there were no instruments of torture on view. Well I don't know what I was worrying about It was a walk in the park to what I had built myself up to expect,apart from the embarassment and the feeling like someone flicking a finger inside me ( I assure you I'm not talking from previous experience lol !) it wasn't too bad, I had about 12-14 samples taken.
I was sent home to await the results of the biopsy and whether I would need an operation or not. Having cancer controls your life in stages of awaiting the next test and then the next result.
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