Surgery in two days….

Hey Rob I had surgery in 2021 and all went well but please do seek support after your prostate has been removed as it really does effect the mental state after realisation dawns . I do wish you well and may strength and fortitude be with you .

Hello Rob

Best wishes for your surgery, and I hope all goes well for you with positive results.

Please do keep us posted as to how the surgery went and how well your recovery goes.

Best wishes - Brian.

That’s great, can you keep a bio please for say the next 6 months because this really helps with understanding how things are afterwards… 

Best wishes Rob. 

I hope that you are able to report the best surgery and an exemplary recovery. 

All the best for your surgery and I wish you a speedy recovery post op. My husband’s is in about 6 weeks time, as long as he can lose a bit of weight. 

Thanks very much for your kind words and advice.

at present I feel positive about the future if there are no complications with the surgery. Still much I want to do in life. 
I don’t know how I will feel post op I suppose it’s a very individual experience.

i do have great support from family I just hope I don’t become difficult or withdrawn.

I think I know what the next few months will entail.

thanks to everyone for their support 

Rob

You sound extremely positive and I think that your positivity will carry you through. Good luck tomorrow and we expect an early post from you showing how relieved you are that the operation is behind you.  To use your landing gear analogy, you will be taxiing out of the maintenance hangar (operating theatre) and you will be preparing for take off (path to recovery).  I sense blue skies ahead!  AW

My best wishes to you for success.

Hi all,

this is probably the incorrect place to post this update.thanks again to all below who wished me well with my surgery two weeks ago.

Two weeks post surgery I feel well and have a positive outlook.

as anyone who’s been through this process will know it is a significant event. I surprised myself in the lead up to surgery by not dwelling on it and trying to get as many jobs done around the house as possible assuming i may not be able to do much for a while post op. I found this helped to distract.

so anyway..morning after op the surgeon said everything went well. Understandably he was reluctant to say a lot more but that he (and his two co/ assistant surgeons) had no concerns.

so I suppose I now have to wait for the pathology report to see if it’s likely that cancer cells were contained solely within the prostate. I presume this is what everyone wants to hear so here’s hoping!

so a very edited account of these past two weeks post surgery.

I was released from hospital the next day with wounds dressed and catheter fitted. Bag full of anti blood clotting injections/ painkillers/ laxatives and catheter bags. A little one to one info about medication and catheter care.

on returning home I was of course quite sore stiff and a little depressed to be honest. No real pain just a feeling of bloating and discomfort and hyper awareness of the catheter albeit painless but just concerned about accidentally disturbing it.

in truth the first 48 hours were difficult. I couldn’t really sleep and was regularly sick though both nights and days. At the same time my stomach was rumbling and growling so not a great couple of days BUT then the sickness stopped and I began to feel much better. Still not really able to eat anything just drinking water.

I did worry that the stomach sickness would persist but it stopped as suddenly as it started.

so day 4 post op first bowel movement. Pleased at that however it was accompanied by a sharp (need to wee) type cramp but it passed after a short time. Bowel movements in the last week have been intermittent again accompanied by cramping but hopefully this will soon pass.

so I have been well looked after by my wife and family and done a lot of sleeping and total rest with no exertion. Had stitches removed yesterday and apparently healing well .

hope to have catheter removed in one week so that will be three weeks total I hope. I haven’t found the catheter painful just want it gone. That said it works well especially at night so a necessary evil. For me it’s incontinence I fear most post catheter removal.

i have no way of knowing how quickly I will recover full control but no reason to think it will not.

I just thought I’d like to jot these things down. I don’t know if it’s helpful to anyone as we ( those post surgery)all are on a similar journey.

I’d just like to end for now by saying I don’t know if I’m out of the woods yet but I do know I’m glad to have surgery behind me. If you are having surgery soon please try not to worry you will be in incredibly capable hands and you won’t feel a thing. Yes things may be somewhat different afterwards but all things considered I feel content with my decision.

I will do a few further notes soon 

regards

Rob

Hello Rob (Rob_) 

Thank you for you up to date and honest account of the post operation period - I am sure it will be a great help to people who need to make a choice and are undecided.

I wish you well moving forward and hope the histology results are good.

Best wishes - Brian.