Thanks for the messages of good wishes pre-op.
My prostatectomy and partial lymph node dissection (Thur Aug 26th) went well although it took until Monday for me to be home due to severe nausea and not being able to keep food down for 3 days.
Back home now and improving daily. Life with a catheter is not proving to be too arduous thankfully. There are a couple of things that would have made it easier for me had I known beforehand.....
1. The amount of variation in urine production throughout the day is staggering. A couple of times I was getting concerned that the catheter was blocked only to realise the reason. Eg. Pre lunch well over a litre of urine in an hour on one occasion followed by less than 50ml in the same period. I now know what to expect!
2. I knew to expect bruising and swelling of penis and scrotum - but wow not that much. The advice to keep the catheter clean around the tip of the penis is all well and good but finding it in that black swollen mass is a different matter!!! Now 8 days post op just beginning to recognise things.
Next step TWOC on Thursday 9th - looking forward to some sort of normality returning although prepared to live with with pads etc for a while if necessary.
Soon to be referred to The Royal Marsden for SABR to the bone metastases