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Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3

CC52 said:

All the best

I hope the surgery went well today Max, and that recovery proceeds as expected. Best wishes

CC

I'm ok !

Got through surgery ok. Doc did not see anything surprising.  I did not see him after will ask if he was able to spare the nerves later.  Hurts very bad, looped on oxycodone at moment.   Thanks to everyone for kind wishes.  

max

VascodaGama

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

I'm ok !

Got through surgery ok. Doc did not see anything surprising.  I did not see him after will ask if he was able to spare the nerves later.  Hurts very bad, looped on oxycodone at moment.   Thanks to everyone for kind wishes.  

max

Alive and kicking

It is wonderful to read your news post treatment. I hope you get better and that you return your membership card. I will be expecting to read more on your healing progress.

Best wishes,

 

 

VGama 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3

VascodaGama said:

Alive and kicking

It is wonderful to read your news post treatment. I hope you get better and that you return your membership card. I will be expecting to read more on your healing progress.

Best wishes,

 

 

VGama 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A little more, post-surgery

Vasco and all others,

I spoke to the surgeon today, before heading home from the hospital. He said that he was able to spare the erectile nerves.

I am on a cath/bag for one week.  I have had an odd sensation: I feel like the bladder is full all the time. This, despite the cath bag filling pretty fast, and they even did an ultrasound, which showed the bladder empty. One RN said it is most likely the balloon inside the bladder, but my NP said it is spasams, and she gave me a med for that, which has helped a lot. The doc agree with the sensation being from trauma and spasams, and agreed with the NPs perscription. He added that this feeling is very common immediatley after surgery.

The biopsy/analysis of the removed gland should be there when I go back in in a week.

In recovery, the RN said I was talking about a date I had had with Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton.  Talk about an hallunication !

max

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Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

A little more, post-surgery

Vasco and all others,

I spoke to the surgeon today, before heading home from the hospital. He said that he was able to spare the erectile nerves.

I am on a cath/bag for one week.  I have had an odd sensation: I feel like the bladder is full all the time. This, despite the cath bag filling pretty fast, and they even did an ultrasound, which showed the bladder empty. One RN said it is most likely the balloon inside the bladder, but my NP said it is spasams, and she gave me a med for that, which has helped a lot. The doc agree with the sensation being from trauma and spasams, and agreed with the NPs perscription. He added that this feeling is very common immediatley after surgery.

The biopsy/analysis of the removed gland should be there when I go back in in a week.

In recovery, the RN said I was talking about a date I had had with Lindsey Lohan and Paris Hilton.  Talk about an hallunication !

max

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PSA Two Months Out

 

Went for my urologist's appointment today, exactly two months since surgical removal.

PSA: < 0.01, or "Undectable."  I had prayed and hoped for a "0.0," and got it...  The doc said that based upon my clinical particulars there is a 90% likelihood that I am clean of PCa for life now.

Continence is well ahead of schedule -- I wear only a very thin liner, and have very few accidents.

ED always lingers longer after surgery, frequently a year or more, even though he was able to do "nerve sparing" in the surgery.  I go back in three weeks to be tested with a needle injection of some sort, which I have not read about yet. 

I am quite thankful. Best of luck to everyone reading this in their own battle,

max

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hopeful and optimistic

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3 said:

PSA Two Months Out

 

Went for my urologist's appointment today, exactly two months since surgical removal.

PSA: < 0.01, or "Undectable."  I had prayed and hoped for a "0.0," and got it...  The doc said that based upon my clinical particulars there is a 90% likelihood that I am clean of PCa for life now.

Continence is well ahead of schedule -- I wear only a very thin liner, and have very few accidents.

ED always lingers longer after surgery, frequently a year or more, even though he was able to do "nerve sparing" in the surgery.  I go back in three weeks to be tested with a needle injection of some sort, which I have not read about yet. 

I am quite thankful. Best of luck to everyone reading this in their own battle,

max

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Toast time

Great number......congratulations

VascodaGama

hopeful and optimistic said:

Toast time

Great number......congratulations

Another celebrating party

Max, this is a wonderful moment. The expected truth; Remission.

They never say it 100% but I believe you are at the mark. Congratulations.

Regarding ED, I would suggest sort of daily massages or pumping and weekly Viagra to avoid “death” at the penile corpora cavernous. (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3299)

Thanks for providing us one more party. Let’s get drunk.

VG

Max Former Hodgkins Stage 3

VascodaGama said:

Another celebrating party

Max, this is a wonderful moment. The expected truth; Remission.

They never say it 100% but I believe you are at the mark. Congratulations.

Regarding ED, I would suggest sort of daily massages or pumping and weekly Viagra to avoid “death” at the penile corpora cavernous. (http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3299)

Thanks for providing us one more party. Let’s get drunk.

VG

Yes !

 

Yes, I've already done a 12 pack of my beloved Pabst !

The doc recommends a "Trimix" injection in three weeks....what say you  ? (anyone)  I am wholly unfamiliar with Trimix.

 

max