My local hospital were great, as was my GP beforehand. In fact if it weren’t for their swiftness and refusal to go for the easy option of waiting to see how it panned out, who knows what the outcome would be.
So, thanks NHS. And yes, me and wife were clapping in our street at 8pm every Thursday.
But they said their experts in this field were up in Charing Cross hospital, so my next appointment was there; just past one of my favourite away footy games.
Me and my mates have seen Fulham v Southampton a fair few times, Saints being my team. And Craven Cottage is a mile from the hospital.
I met the main consultant who confirmed previous cancer biopsy results but gave me two options for RC.
1. Ileal conduit. This would be a bag for life and stoma.
2. Neobladder. This would be a new internal bladder made from bowel.
Both options have pros and cons. In fact both options have many cons; I’ll spare the details.
But in order to determine if I could have option 2, my surgeon wants to look inside me to see if my ureters would accept it and are cancer free (more biopsies).
The other reason she wants to pursue the Neobladder option is that I’m pretty young for bladder cancer and thinks long term it would be more “normal” for me.
