Hey community,
I’ve been putting off saying hello in here for a while now as I’ve been trying to process everything but I’m at a stage now where I could really use some support/advice.
As the title suggests, I recently had a left radical orchiectomy on the 21st October, I went home that same evening in a lot of pain but assumed and assured it was all part of the process and I’ll start to get back to my normal self soon.
however the following morning, I instantly knew something wasn’t right as I know my own body and the wound area on my abdomen was extremely hot and angry, I ended up basically bed bound, with nothing but over the counter pain relief due to not being prescribed meds to go home with. Eventually it all got too much and I ended up having to go to hospital on Wednesday afternoon.
and that’s where I still am at the time of writing this, I’d developed a huge infection underneath the wound that had spread to a tennis ball size bulge on my hip, my fever has been consistently spiking and just all around not been very well.
I got given a strong course of antibiotics but they didn’t work unfortunately, I ended up having surgery last night to reopen the wound and let the infection clear/drain.
im sorry if this was too much information but I just wanted some advice/support as to whether anyone’s experienced this before? I was told that the original procedure should have been very straight forward and I was looking forward to ticking this off and awaiting my mdt consultation and getting on with the next course of treatment if needed.
i just feel completely at rock bottom at the moment and it’s really not where I saw myself less than a week after my original orchidectomy..
any words of advice would be greatly appreciated.
apologies for the rant and TMI.
All the best,
Adam
