Accept you are a broken machine.
Accept your mojo is in a jar in a laboratory and you are not getting it back!
Removal of 2/3 of the bladder (diseased) means I have Nocturia. I get up 4 to 5 times every night to go to the toilet. At worst 9 times in the night. Exhausting. I have had Botox to help.
Yes
I had no choice. Have the surgery or die.
I have prostap injections every 3 months. It will eat your soul!
Accept the fact you will become 1/4 of the person you used to be, but with an extra 2 stone!
I ‘run’ slowly every morning attend 3 exercises classes a week. Go to the gym by myself 4 times a week…… It makes no difference. You are just ‘treading water’ no matter how hard you try.
Weight gain (12 kg), hot flushes, affected by cold, no stamina or resilience, but at least I only shave every 3 weeks, hair cut every 2 months (just to catchup with the barber).
Not sure
I often feel I am burning in hell for a mistake I made in a past life.
The preparation required for radiotherapy is demeaning and takes 1/2 a day for a 10 minute dose of radiotherapy on the table. Kiss goodbye to a month of your life.
Destroyed my resilience. Took 6 months to recover any resemblance of ‘get up and go’. Just drained.
Yes
It reduced my PSA level from a growing 1.4 post operation.
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