The continuing saga
November 13th 2008 06:41
Maybe if I lived in the States, or Australia, I'd have had health insurance. But being a New Zealander by residence, health insurance is something I don't think about. Like a good number of other people in the country.
So whatever happens with prostate thing - yes, I know it's bcome the almost total focus of this blog, and is likely to remain so for a while - I'm going to have to rely on the health system to look after me. Which it has done pretty well so far.
My latest blood test was up another point on the PSA, which isn't good. So when I went to see the doctor again this week - on a matter not related to the prostate, as far as I can tell - she said, it looks as though getting the biopsy done is the best thing. The wisest thing, in fact.
I'll live through it, no doubt. At the moment I've been distracted by an odd groin pain that's come and gone over the last ten days. It's been worst when I've gone for a long walk, of all things. Anyway, it seems to be subsiding, and the doctor says it ain't a hernia, or an infection (urine test showed that apparently) and it doesn't appear to be anything else
particularly serious. So we're just getting through it and looking forward to the next health quirk! Go from one to another these last few months!
I picked up a book by Brian Turner (the poet, I presume) called Please leave the seat up: confronting my prostate cancer with humour. I found it in the library today, but haven't really had a good look at it. Mostly interested to know how they did the prostate operation in the end, in his case. Doubt that it'll be that humorous, but one can live in hope!
So whatever happens with prostate thing - yes, I know it's bcome the almost total focus of this blog, and is likely to remain so for a while - I'm going to have to rely on the health system to look after me. Which it has done pretty well so far.
My latest blood test was up another point on the PSA, which isn't good. So when I went to see the doctor again this week - on a matter not related to the prostate, as far as I can tell - she said, it looks as though getting the biopsy done is the best thing. The wisest thing, in fact.
I'll live through it, no doubt. At the moment I've been distracted by an odd groin pain that's come and gone over the last ten days. It's been worst when I've gone for a long walk, of all things. Anyway, it seems to be subsiding, and the doctor says it ain't a hernia, or an infection (urine test showed that apparently) and it doesn't appear to be anything else
I picked up a book by Brian Turner (the poet, I presume) called Please leave the seat up: confronting my prostate cancer with humour. I found it in the library today, but haven't really had a good look at it. Mostly interested to know how they did the prostate operation in the end, in his case. Doubt that it'll be that humorous, but one can live in hope!
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Comment by katyzzz
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Regards to you, your wife and family. Eat healthily.
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And as for little kids having surgery, I was told today of a kid who'd had some sinus/nasal surgery done about a week ago (he's only three) and now he's not eating and something has gone wrong which the doctors haven't been able to put their finger on. Scary. Certainly much worse for their parents than what I've got pending is for me, I suspect. We had a grandson who nearly died of meningitis a couple of years ago - that was upsetting!