Monday, April 29, 2013
STATUS
My public is complaining, justly so, that I have not given the results of the cystoscopy that was done last Friday.
OK OK
No news is usually good news but it doesn't feel that way to others who are waiting to hear. Sorry.
He went in and we looked. The walls of my bladder are all bumpy. They are supposed to be smooth. The prostate is enlarged, reducing flow. This should not really be the case as it got fried when I got radiated but it is.
He took the leg catheter off to see how I would do.
I was back in the office by 3pm to get it back in.
We are on a hiatus. He wants to "let it rest" a week.
I suspect this is as much for me to get settled on the reality of it too.
I was scheduled to have a uradynamics test Monday--drink a lot of water and see if it comes out. Or how much.
I think I had that test in a sort of trial on Friday.
Here is what I think will happen. I will be given some options but basically, surgery would involve putting a tube in there. Most men, I now know a few, in this situation self-catheter every four hours or so. It is so common that there are sterile packs pre gelled and all. Of course if there is an obstruction that won't work. But he had no trouble going in with the scope and no problem putting a new leg catheter in so it is probably a breeze.
