RugbyBuck
Our church has no bells.
Get checked and do a PSA. I was diagnosed with it in November three years ago and had robotic surgery the following March. Complete success and everything works. Had I waited even six months the outcome would likely have been different. Once it's outside of the prostate, folks, it's a whole different game.
Funny story: The hospital release instructions listed "must haves" and "suggestions" to get from the pharmacy. Stool softener was listed at the very end of the suggestions items so we didn't get any. I'd never had general anesthesia before and basically your whole GI tract is just shut down and doesn't come back online right away; in my case a couple of days after I got home. Also important to know (which I didn't going in) is that robotic surgery doesn't mean "doesn't hurt". It means "hurts less than surgery used to" but you've still got five holes in your gut which of course coincides anatomically with the GI tract. When things started moving, things started to hurt... worse, but there was nothing to do but wait... and wait. After most of a day I felt like I could probably send a package to ann arbor and thought, you know, one of those stool softener things might not be a bad idea. My wife ran down to the pharmacy and explained to the guy that I'd had abdominal surgery four days earlier and NOW thought I'd pick up a stool softener. She says the look on his face was abject horror. We learned the hard, really hard, way that these things aren't instant-on. After two hours on the throne (with a catheter up my johnson, by the way; a different story for a different time) and pain that made me question whether I should've just let the cancer take its course instead, I launched what can only be described as a pine cone the size and consistency of a fireplace log. I have since recommended that softener be moved from suggestion to must-have status.
Funny story: The hospital release instructions listed "must haves" and "suggestions" to get from the pharmacy. Stool softener was listed at the very end of the suggestions items so we didn't get any. I'd never had general anesthesia before and basically your whole GI tract is just shut down and doesn't come back online right away; in my case a couple of days after I got home. Also important to know (which I didn't going in) is that robotic surgery doesn't mean "doesn't hurt". It means "hurts less than surgery used to" but you've still got five holes in your gut which of course coincides anatomically with the GI tract. When things started moving, things started to hurt... worse, but there was nothing to do but wait... and wait. After most of a day I felt like I could probably send a package to ann arbor and thought, you know, one of those stool softener things might not be a bad idea. My wife ran down to the pharmacy and explained to the guy that I'd had abdominal surgery four days earlier and NOW thought I'd pick up a stool softener. She says the look on his face was abject horror. We learned the hard, really hard, way that these things aren't instant-on. After two hours on the throne (with a catheter up my johnson, by the way; a different story for a different time) and pain that made me question whether I should've just let the cancer take its course instead, I launched what can only be described as a pine cone the size and consistency of a fireplace log. I have since recommended that softener be moved from suggestion to must-have status.
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