Thursday, March 15, 2007
An Update
Since recovering from my health challenges following an operation at age 52 to remove cancerous stuff (no I'm not medically knowledgeable) from my prostate, I haven't been keeping this web log up to date. This is because it was never really meant to deal with the health issues. My interest was in recording the service experience as a customer of the medical profession.
And I haven't had much involvement with them lately, certainly not on issues that I'm comfortable talking about.
I got the 6-month all clear. No need for follow up radio or chemotherapy which is just as well because I'm not sure that I'd have agreed to the treatment. My 9 month check up is at the end of March and I've no reason to think it won't be fine. I've taken advice for another prostate recovery patient - same age, same op' 12 months earlier - and gone on Silenium (Usana brand) as a natural assist.
The two issues that males of a certain age want to know about are the bladder and erections. As I said earlier I'd rather talk about customer service! Anyway I will say that the bladder is fine 97% of the time. I'd prefer 100% of the time but this seems to be as good as it will get for me, though I'm diligent with the exercises to improve it or at least make sure it doesn't get worse. As for erections, who'd have believed that you would inject yourself there!!! Not my idea of fun. I'm told they can still happen naturally within 2 years. One year and 3 months to go. I'm hoping.
# posted by Jurek Leon @ 6:39 am 
