Mike,
Prostate is gland which is walnut shaped and creates seminal
fluid which nutrifies and transports sperms, it is common type
and grows slowly within the prostate. Some Prostate Cancers
Grow Slowly and need least or no treatment while others grow
faster and need better treatment. Alike all types of cancer if
Prostate Cancer is detected early when its confined to prostate
gland has more possibilities of successful treatment.
While the check for it is literally a PITA <G>, it or a Prostate
Specific Antigen (PSA) test in blood work, is a great way to keep
check on things. We have an amateur radio traffic net during the
week called the Digital Radio Enthusiasts Morning Net, or DRE Net
for short...but we have to clarify what DRE means in this case. <G>
Several years ago, to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH...
better known as an enlarged prostate, common as males get older),
I had a procedure done called "Urolift". They obviously sedate you
(thank God!!), and they go up through the penis and urethra, to
attach these things on the lobes of the prostate, similar to what
you would put on window blinds to hold them open. It basically
keeps the flow of urine out of the bladder unrestricted.
While there is some pain and burning on urination, and blood in
the urine for a time afterwards, pain medications can ease the
discomfort...and these symptoms will resolve within a few days.
The other benefits are:
1) No cutting, burning, or removal of the prostate.
2) Patients can return to normal activities in 3 days.
3) No overnight hospitalization.
4) No erectile dysfunction or ejaculatory issues, but you have to
hold off on sexual relations for possibly a month.
5) Most patients experience significant imporvement in urinary
symptoms from shortly after the procedure, with the real difference
noted within 2 to 4 weeks. Believe me, it feels good to urinate
standing up!! :)
That reminds me of the joke, where this Mother and her daughter
are going on vacation, but this was 60 years ago, in the early
1960's, when life was simpler, and you didn't have to worry about
perverts and child predators at highway rest stops. Anyway, Momma
and her daughter would go on long drive vacations, and every so
often, they'd stop for lunch and potty breaks.
While getting her potty trained, Momma taught her daughter to look
for the longer words on the restroom...WOMEN (or Whoa, Men!) <G>
versus MEN...and the longer one would be the one she'd use.
Well, on a vacation, they had lunch at the rest stop, and Momma
told her to go potty before they left, and to "remember what she
said about which one to use". Her daughter gets there, and she sees
LADIES and GENTLEMEN -- guess which one is longer??!! <BG>
So, the little girl walks into the men's restroom, and sees a
little boy there, with his pants and underwear down so he can pee,
and she asks him "What are you doing??". Then, she sees his penis,
and asks "What do you have there??".
Innocently, the little boy tells her...and the little girl,
astonished, says "Boy!! That's a handy thing to have along at
picnics!!". <BG>
I would've loved to seen the look on her Mom's face when she
told her!! <LOL!>.
Back to the Urolift procedure, when I had it done, I thought it
was fantastic!!
Unfortunately, a kidney stone lodged in one of the staples from
it...so they had to "undo it", and perform a TURP (trans-urethral
resection of the prostate), and cut out the center of my prostate.
I understand that if the prostate is removed, you basically can
no longer get an erection. While there are things like Viagra, Cialis,
and penile implants, those can be dangerous...as they can cause an
unsafe drop in blood pressure if combined with certain medications,
and the implants could cause permanent damage to the penis. The rule
is that if you have an erection for more than 4 hours, you need to go
to the emergency room.
That reminds me of a cute children's sermon deal in a church on one
Easter Sunday. The preacher asked the kids if anyone knew what a
resurrection was.
Little Johnny (yeah, him...our favorite kid <BG>), said "If you have
one for more than 4 hours, you have to go to the hospital".
Needless to say, the preacher was red-faced, but it brought the house
down in raucous laughter. <BG>
Being on Lasix twice a day, with being on the threshold of type 2
diabetes, I'm voiding quite a bit (I don't need all that extra fluid, especially with having congestive heart failure)...and the color is
light. If the urine is dark, it's concentrated, and it means you're
not getting enough fluid. I try to drink 2 quarts of liquid a day.
My late wife drank water like a fish, and the nurse told her one
day, "you have really good looking urine". But, she was also type 1
diabetic.
I think of what the late W.C. Fields said..."I don't drink water.
Fish [have sex] in it". <G>
I have to insert humor into everything I type and say...otherwise,
I'd be crying all the time...but I hope folks enjoyed the humor.
Daryl
... Better to belch and taste it, than to fart and waste it.
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