I did go for counselling after my surgery and during recovery from surgery. I think it’s important to recognise how you feel about what happens to you with a diagnosis of cancer. Almost everyone I talked to and said I had prostate cancer said something like “Someone I know had it and they are fine now” “it’s something you die with, not from” it seemed to trivialise the situation compared to how I felt.
After surgery I had instances of intense bladder pain if I couldn’t find a toilet, so during a long drive for holiday travel I had to plan more carefully. If I was someone who liked to travel abroad i think this would have been problematic and even with car journeys at home I did experience difficulties.
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I think being caught in early stages the treatment ensured a good outcome. Having said that, surgery is not an easy option I think it was about 6 months before I felt I had overcome the physical aspects of surgery
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