Thursday's Surgery Completed

David

Sorry to hear you went through a lot of tough time. You are indeed a very strong person! I wish you will have a good recovery and feel much better soon!

Best wish!

Jennifer

Purgatory--I have seen your posts around here since we arrived in 2006--thank you for everything--you have helped us all so much. But I think you deserve leaving Purgatory behind..how about Tierra Firma?

Becky

David,

I just lurked around here in '06. The surgery was in '07 and maybe, since the whole PcA thing seems like "purgatory", I thought you were here since then. Anyway, you are an inspiration, thank you! B is now 54 and yes, we are grateful!! I would love to get the history on the name....please?????

B

Today was treatment 3 of 39. Took them 35 minutes, and once again, they had alignment problems. The operator told me that they can't get a green "launch" for the radiation until every alignment point is perfect. After a lot of fooling around, moving me all over the place, they locked in and did the same seven zap positions as before. I felt nausated today while working for 4 hours, and still feel queasy. Gee, I am 1/13th done. If you like math. The SP cath suture is still sore, but nothing like it was the other night. Can't believe I got to go through this 36 more times.

"B" - while my entire PC journey has been a never ending story now since my first biopsy back in 2007, it does seem like a purgatory or limbo of never ending medical matters, however, when I converted from being a protestant to being Catholic at age 50, got fascinated with the true doctrine of purgatory, not a place, i.e. heaven or hell, but a state of being. And since I write horror, the name kind of stuck. There, mystery revealed.

kbars - after spending 101 days on 7 foleys, the SP is refreshing, as soon as the exit suture heals a little better, think I will enjoy the difference, especially since I am on this one for at least 2-3 months. The rest of it, as you know, works like any other catheters, and I became a wizz with big bags, straps, leg bags, and the latest in catheter fashions.

jeff - when you wear the big bag or as some call it, the night bag, its a closed system and pretty well keeps itself equalized, but when wearing a leg bag, its not, and any abruptness to the tube or the bag, can cause a nice wave of pain as it back pressures up the hose, up the cath. You will know what I mean if you have ever experienced that.

Jeff, fortunately, most of our guys don't stay on a catheter long enough to get into all the little nuances and ways of the masterful foley catheter. Today when I was being treated for the RT, the operator kept looking at the hose coming out below my naval, and finally asked, it sure looks like that would hurt. Since I was amongst friends, lol, I told her, well I had one coming out of my penis for a total of 101 days, and this is a big improvement over that. She decided to change subjects real fast.

Thank you Barry