The loss of sexuality is an abiding burden.
Don't blame your prostrate treatment for everything! Depression and anxiety were long standing issues that were worsened. Because the treatment has worked this long, I've lived long enough to acquire my memory problems!
Of the dozen fellow sufferers I knew at the time, only six of us survived the first year.
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Since the operation I have had 20 years of fulfilling life, gaining an MA with distinction in my treatment year and a doctorate since; serving 20 years on church business at local, regional and national level. And most important of all rejoiced in a score of grand-children and great grand-children and amazingly a much enhanced, more loving, closer relationship with my wife of 56 years!
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