Owing to my age it didn’t really bother me too much. Don’t let it define your whole life.
Physical effects were quite serious and also the required follow-up (rigid cystoscopy). But I did get over these and have returned to a pretty normal life (excluding sex) and am grateful for the recovery, and more years of life it gave me, which makes me appreciate life perhaps more than I did before.
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I trusted the consultant’s advice and things worked out generally as I was told they would. I opted for a more interventionist approach (surgery) than playing safe with a less radical procedure and am happy that I did all I could to confront the problem when it occurred. I won’t have regrets that I should have been braver.
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