The big C comes for a visit
 

I had a cystoscopy procedure performed today because I was occasionally seeing blood in my urine. My doctor found a fairly large cancerous tumor in my bladder so now the race is on to get rid of it. He's confident that it was caught early enough that I should have a full recovery, but I won't know what the treatment plan is until I see him again next Thursday. For now, I have a freaking catheter that will be removed next week. I've had a catheter before and they absolutely suck! One humorous note...the nurse who took care of me post-op said to my wife, "We had to use an extra-long catheter to wrestle the San Antonio white snake!" I thought my wife was going to pee her pants! :dance:

Pee well soon :yesnod:

Best of luck...











Cancer sucks

As a survivor of prostate cancer (so far), I feel for ya brother. Hang in there, it will get better.

Wayyy too many of us Cancer Brothers/Sisters.

They can figure out how to cure AIDS in a few years but Cancer......



Good luck in treatment. Hang tough !

Good luck and follow their instructions to a tee, my old man had that surgery (they called it a bladder scrape to remove one of his tumors) and the first procedure seemed to be successful.

Good luck!

I was hoping for a different kind of C...

Had a small bladder tumor removed 3 years ago and during start of my 3rd year follow-ups, the doc discovered another tumor at the first of the year. Removed and finished my BCG treatments a few weeks ago. Hang in there, surgeon said bladder cancer has a high rate of reoccurrence.

Get well soon!

Damn, good luck. Kick cancers ass!

Good luck, you've got this. Oh, and please tell us that nurse was a female.

Well, that sucks big time.

Just wondering, how did the Dr determine its cancerous. Just by looks?
Usually, the tissue sample takes a day or so to evaluate.

Hope all goes well for you.
Mr SA Whitesnake :rofl:

Prayers going to you !

Thanks everyone for the well-wishes!

The doctor said the same thing about recurrence. I'll know more next week.

Oh yes, she was. Young and definately a cutie!

The doctor did a biopsy and they han an on-site lab at the surgery center. My wife is now calling me Mr Whitesnake! I'll never live this one down!

Milk it for all it's worth :D

Sorry to hear that, hope everything goes well for you. I had the same scare one week ago today coincidentally, started seeing blood in my urine out of the blue so got rushed in for a scope. Fortunately, it was just due to a benign enlarged prostate, no cancer to be found. Felt like a ton of weight was lifted from my shoulders, I can only guess what you must be thinking.

Good luck, here's hoping for a speedy recovery.

Good luck

Sorry to hear that Jim - best wishes on a positive outcome!

When I was hospitalized last November for my pulmonary embolism they inserted a catheter in me. That sucked! And a few weeks after they removed it I has a nasty UTI, which involved lots of blood in my urine.

Thanks Steve! I hate the catheter, but I'm really not looking forward to having it removed! I'm taking antibiotics to hopefully prevent a UTI.