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Work Report - April 2009Good excusesApril 30th 2009 02:35
My fans have been complaining at the lack of blog posts here over the last week or so. I have good excuses!
Firstly, I've been working. Yes, I still work. Normal 40 hour week
Waiting RoomApril 22nd 2009 19:18
On Tuesday I had a follow-up appointment at the Urology Dept - follow-up to my prostate op back in February, that is. Eight weeks and a day.
Because you have to do a flow-test in conjunction with the appointment, and because you don't have to do it on the same day, I opted to go in a day early, because I find the hassle of waiting around for the appointment combined with trying to fill my bladder is all a bit much. Anyway, did the flow-test without too much problem, on the Monday, and came back on Tuesday to find that the waiting room had some thirty patients in it, rather like too many tourists crammed into an airport foyer waiting to go off to their boutique hotels
Not dying - at this pointApril 17th 2009 22:21
Well, this morning we went aquajogging - me for the first time since November last year.
Nothing fell off, and there are no aches and pains that I wouldn't have had from a normal session of aquajogging in the past. So that's another step forward on the health side of things
Man (this man anyway) does not live by bread aloneApril 16th 2009 09:49
The eleven weeks when I had the catheter in really set me back in terms of fitness - and weight - as I'm beginning to realise. Even though I've been walking to work for more than a fortnight now, I'm still feeling quite tight around the stomach when I sit down, and am having to pull myself up straight in order not to cause pressure on the lower abdomen - or more, specifically, the area where the op took place, which still reacts to being squashed. As well it might!
I'm not quite at the stage of taking diet pills yet, but I'm certainly trying to walk more, and climb more hills and so on. Which means going back to my pre-prostate-problem days of walking part of the way home (mostly uphill), as well as doing some climbing around the hillier streets in town during the lunch hour. And perhaps cutting back a bit on some of the food intake
More on UTI 'cures'April 11th 2009 08:45
The women's health site (men supposedly are less prone to UTIs, so I'm kind of having to put myself in women's shoes at this point, you might say) tells us the same things that the Health Centre nurse told me: plenty of fluids and cranberry juice. But they add in Vitamin C (so are oranges in or out here?)
What about the Mayo Clinic's view on keeping UTIs at bay? Well, they tell us that antibiotics are the prime approach to treating the problem, and list five common ones: * Amoxicillin (Amoxil, Trimox
The U Taken In ReportApril 11th 2009 08:20
After my discussion with the Health Centre nurse the other day, I guess I should be convinced that a lot of liquid, including cranberry juice, ought to be fixing me up well. If that's the case, why hasn't the cranberry juice I've been drinking since before I had the operation not had much effect? How come I'm now on antibiotics for yet another urinary tract infection?
I just checked out the book I bought in Cromwell during the Christmas holidays (those joyful holidays when I was wearing the blasted catheter) and it's prime remedy for UTIs is....cranberry juice, which was pretty what I remembered from reading the book before. And incidentally I was first alerted to the benefits of cranberry juice not by the Health Centre or my doctor, but by a friend. So why isn't it working well
WaterFullApril 9th 2009 08:34
A friend of mine who had the same prostate op as I did (the oddly named: TURP - the op, that is, not my friend) told me the other day that he now drinks more than he used to in the past. And so do I, but not enough apparently. I'm currently fighting off another urinary tract infection (UTI). It came out of nowhere yesterday, and, while it didn't lay me completely low, it certainly showed up those unpleasant symptoms that I remember from the December to February period. In other words, more frequent need to urinate, queasy stomach, pain around the area where the prostate lives and some other niggles as well. Plus a lack of energy.
Fortunately, this time, I got onto it more quickly, and had the antibiotics to hand within a few hours. As a result, even though I started out today feeling under par, I managed to work through the full day, instead of having to take yet more time off. (I was off yesterday afternoon, when the symptoms showed their true colours
SurvivingApril 7th 2009 07:10
I think, in spite of the painful time I had prior to my prostate op, that I’ve got off pretty lightly. Horror stories about prostate complications keep coming out of the woodwork, as it were.
On Sunday, I heard from my son’s father-in-law how his father had not only been through the prostate op at least once – it might have been twice – but was now in his old age saddled with a larger catheter than usual because he’d tried to pull the smaller gauge one out (he’s moving towards Alzheimer’s). He was literally screaming while they put this catheter in. Worse, he’d been left in the Emergency Dept for quite some time with a water retention problem. As someone who now knows from more than one experience of it, just how painful water retention is, I can’t believe that he wasn’t attended to. Another friend of mine had told me a while ago how his first prostate op didn’t quite work so they had to go back in – and then he had water retention problems as well, and couldn’t get anything done about it for quite a number of hours
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