And just like that...it's been a month since the op... well actually more like five weeks...In truth it's seemed rather longer, I suppose I've always been by nature a beat the clock type (or impatient b****** as Mrs Flygidz has it) but I really thought I'd be a lot better my now.
Wound wise there is still a little discomfort but at least the stitches have started to dissolve and come out one thing I find a bit weird is the incisions seem to be healing at different rates. Not wildly different rates just enough to be noticeable.. still getting a bit of internal pain but that is usually associated with being tired.
Now then that's a thing a word about being tired it seems to happen quicker that before - In all honesty that maybe an illusion brought on by pain I mentioned earlier but that just how it seems.
Moving on to wee - well it's a lot better than it was the early regime called for two sometimes three level 2s during the day and a pair of man nappies at night. At the moment it seems to be a Level 2 during the day and another at night - the night one is more for security more often than not on inspection in the morning there's no squirt evidence. I think the most important lesson I've learned here is that improvement is not linear you have a few days of goo performance then you get a very squirty day maybe in reverting to a three pad day but the trend remains an improving one. Before I leave the whole wee topic - here's a top tip indulge in some manscaping - it seems to to keep things rather fresher and more comfortable.
One of the follow ups was being put on the blue bombers - I confess I haven't gotten around to buying a pump yet its on my to do list but there's such an array out there it's hard to select one - plus last I looked WH Smith doesn't stock 'Which Dick Pump'. Nevertheless I did notice a distinct stirring the other morning not much but definite sign of life...
Still got ages till the review histology first post op PSA check - beginning of November for that so there is a sense of the sword of Damocles - cos from what I understand with a T3 you never know...Further complicating matters is we finally got a date for Mrs Flygidz op mid November so at least should be physically well enough lifting and so forth to properly look after her when she comes out of hospital. But it does rather add another sword to our thread.
I was concerned by my progress - so I phoned the nurses team at St Dicks answer phone took a number of goes and about week time wise before I got a call back - briefed the nurse on what was what and was encouraged to hear that overall I'm not doing too badly on the curve by one measure, ahead of it by others. I can't help thinking it would have been a really useful thing to have got more of a briefing about how recovery was likely to go - I mean I know everyone's different but just some averages.
I think that's pretty much it for now