the pc adventure

After contemplating my ordeal with this pc buissnes I have come to the conclusion that it has been quite an adventure.As with an adventure all things are not predicable.We have an idea what to expect but the unexpected experience is what makes it an adventure. I came out of surgery and into recovery with more knowledge than I had before I stumbled into the pre-op status of having PC.To be more informed after the fact than before seems to me now that I had approched this mountain bassackwards.Would I have done something different?Most defintily not.Not because I came through this surgery doing pretty good now,because i had some issues to deal with,but becauseI could not endure life with a cancerous prostate.It had to be removed.As with every adventure,if we knew every outcome,it would not be an adventure.It would be a predetermined experince.I wish for everyone that PC surgery could be a predetermined experince but such is not the case.Someone at HW made a point months ago that I have to agree upon.In my own words his point was to this effect.To set sail upon the sea without any knowledge of how to sail a ship,is like going into PC surgery without knowiny anymore than a person who does not have PC and its effects are the furthest thing from his mind.The ship will definetly move about the sea from the tides and wind but its direction will be at the bid of external forces and if left to its own course will proably be dashed upon the rocks.Im not saying you can control the outcome of PC surgery but you can be ready for an unexpected experince and be informed to change it into a predetermined experince.We trust our doctors to make the right choices for our medical care but if we know what the next procedure is we can see if he is directing us through the right course of action.To be informed about our journey,in all aspects,we can better manage our medical care.

  This is to our adventure through PC.

                                     Neil 

Good analogy there, Neil. And I am still glad that you are still unplugged at the moment, hope it stays that way for you for good.

Neil: I am very impressed with you anthology of PC. I think you hit it on the head. Most of us have been down that same road. I should have been better informed before surgery. The only thing I wish is that I had found HW during the discovery process. Not that I would have done anything different. Thanks for posting this.

From one Cajun to another

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Jeff T

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Deerhunter

Very good analogy. I looked at my journey not only as an adventure, but a complex problem that needed to be solved. You learn as much as you can and gather as much data as you can about your individual situation and arrive at a solution. You bring in people that know more than you do about the issues. Then just as any other problem you monitor to see if your decision was correct and make adjustments. If you view it as a complex problem and challange that must be overcome instead of just an unfortunate circumstance in which you have no control you are better able to cope with it.
JT