surgery tomorrow, see ya (now post surgery)

Tomorrow is the big day for the prostate surgery.  You can check with me on the PC forum at "Seven Day Countdown".  Just found out another cousin has PD.  More after the surgery.  See ya.  GTM

Post Edited (gtmriviera) : 11/18/2007 10:09:57 AM (GMT-7)

Hope all is well,and the surgery went well.Ed

Not going real well, I have pneumonia now.  I refer you to the prostate cancer forum.  Thanks.

Pathology report was good news and bad news, but the bottom line is that we think they got all of the cancer.  Pneumonia is trying to kick my butt but I'm gradually feeling better.

I went back for another chest xray this afternoon, but I think that the pneumonia is about gone.  Something funny is going on with my voice and I sound sort of hoarse.  In the meantime, I've lost 20 pounds and grown a beard.  I'm not recognizing the stranger in the mirror, but I will get over this and I will never take good health for granted again.

How did your surgery go and did you notice any effects on pd symptoms.

I wish you a speedy recovery.

The Bear

Hi Riviera, so pleased to hear that your surgery went well and I ask to piggyback my own experience here on your post.

I had hip surgery 10 weeks ago and was really laid up for the first 6-8 weeks and it is only now that I am making sense of the way I feel. My arthritic pain has gone but the backachee remain as does the stiffness in my legs which clears up the cause - pd. There was always a debate as to whether or not it was referred pain fron OA but now we are more sure. Also the enforced rest allowed the effects of the pd to get in under the wire and I am stiffening up somewhat through lack of activity - ope that physio will loosen up the muscles now I have started..

I went to see my neuro yesterday only to find he had left theh hospital without informing his patients!!! New guy wants to reconfirm that it is IPD that I have and so is sending me for a brain scan - if they can find one - and a plethora of blood tests including one for copper [?]. I never had any of this when first dx'd. He 'just wants to satisfy himself' that it is pd. Left eme a bbit up in the air because what if it isn't and then what? We all fear what it could be if not pd.

Also spoke about future med regime change to try and give me back some of the loss in fine motor skills in right hand. But nothing to happen until he writes to and I discuss with my GP. He seems very thorough but I to made the point that Yaakkimo made elsewhere about the quality of walking up and down an office to walking in the great outdoors - it really is a different ballpark.

 

Take care and thanks.

 

The Bear

 

Bear, I also found that an enforced rest due to surgery, although necessary, is not good for your overall condition.  Between the surgery and the pneumonia I was not eating and not exercising for a couple of weeks or so.  That was when I dropped 25 pounds.  Even after my appetitite began coming back I was still just sitting around.  By the time that I went back to the office on 11/5 I was just able to walk slowly.  I was surprised to find that by the end of the day I had more energy than at the beginning and everyday I felt a little better.  Even now I still am not doing the work around the house that I am used to, but I am gradually improving.  For many years I was going to the gym and running and in my late 40's I was in great condition.  Ten years ago I got busy and never got back to it, although I still looked like I was somewhat muscular.  After losing 25 pounds I don't even look like I have any muscles, but the positive side is that I now have a leaner body to put muscles on and I joined a gym yesterday.  I've been needing to do this for years and I am really looking forward to it.  If you are interested in the results of the prostate surgery you can find out more in the prostate cancer forum and the thread is "Momma always said.."