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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / January 2006Pending Robotic LRP
Next week I'll undergo surgery, and I want to thank all of you who allowed me to lurk and learn. I started with messages from 2002, and became current. As I approached 2006 many of you gave me information I would not have thought to ask. I'll keep you updated on my progress. This NG has been a life line for me. Thanks 11/8/05 PSA 3.82 @66 11/19/05 biopsy G6(3+3) 10% in left base, left mid gland, left apex Benign in right side E. Hendrix Sounds like you have some great numbers, E. What date is your surgery?  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05, 5/05, 10/05 PSA .07 .05 .06 .05 .08 Non Illegitimi Carborundum > Next week I'll undergo surgery, and I want to thank all of you who allowed > me to lurk and learn. I started with messages from 2002, and became [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > E. Hendrix Hi E. Hendrix! Had my RLRP on 12/27/05. Although I'm a little younger, your stats are a little better than mine were. Just as others helped me, I'd be more than willing to answer any questions RE: my experiences. Let me know. KenA ===== > Next week I'll undergo surgery, and I want to thank all of you who allowed > me to lurk and learn. I started with messages from 2002, and became current. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > E. Hendrix > Next week I'll undergo surgery, and I want to thank all of you who allowed > me to lurk and learn. I started with messages from 2002, and became [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > 10% in left base, left mid gland, left apex > Benign in right side Best of luck, Earl. Hope you can give us some feedback soon on how well your findings here represented the scene for you. I.P. Hello Mr Hendrix, One nurse told me to sit back, relax, and pretend you are going on a cruise ride, where everyone will help you, you will get fed, bathed, catered too, pampered, and all the above. Yes, I know it sounds too good, and yes a bit of that does happen. So sit back and relax, enjoy the most latest scientific advantages we have ever seen. You will be fine, and I have to remind you...... Make sure you look in the rear view mirror as you leave the Hospital. I want you to see the sign getting smaller, and not larger.... John Loomis RP 1999 @ 49 still kickin. > Next week I'll undergo surgery, and I want to thank all of you who allowed > me to lurk and learn. I started with messages from 2002, and became [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > E. Hendrix > One nurse told me to sit back, relax, and pretend you are going on a > cruise ride, where everyone will help you, you will get fed, bathed, > catered too, pampered, and all the above. BATHED?! You mean civilian hospitals BATHE post-op pts? The most I was offered was a hot, wet towel for my brow -- in an overheated ward. MAN, I got ripe and crusty over the next seven days. I guess that saved the VA a few cents in soap and laundry. My "cruise ride" was on a tramp steamer ... as a stowaway. '-) OTOH, it didn't cost me one cent ... and the morphine must have blocked my sense of smell. I.P. >> One nurse told me to sit back, relax, and pretend you are going on a >> cruise ride, where everyone will help you, you will get fed, bathed, [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > few cents in soap and laundry. My "cruise ride" was on a tramp steamer ... > as a stowaway. '-) Perhaps you remember me speaking of Kara, my nurse's assistant. Finest bather of all time and was extremely gentle and thorough around the package. SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05, 5/05, 10/05 PSA .07 .05 .06 .05 .08 Non Illegitimi Carborundum Hello IP..... I paid the premium....Blue Cross. Yes I got bathed, and yes it was no picnic either. I had middle nite patients coming in with appendix... etc. Anyway, that is long past, and it was very hot in the Hospital. I was shown how to bathe myself, and was never a crusty person. We were to use plastic wrap, and tape over the incision, and get in the shower....It worked, I was extremely happy and that I could do that. Yes I got light brothe, soup, ice, then little by little dinner..... Turkey Pot Pie...it was very good. Remember I was born on an Army Hospital. My Dad was a lifer. I was born at Ft. Lewis Washington...Army Hospital Anyway, sorry the VA treated you that way...... I saw my Dad treated very similiar..and my Mom. >> One nurse told me to sit back, relax, and pretend you are going on a >> cruise ride, where everyone will help you, you will get fed, bathed, [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > I.P. > I was shown how to bathe myself, and was never a crusty person. We were > to use plastic wrap, and tape over the incision, and get in the shower I was told to just hop in the shower, too, with no need to cover the incisions. Two problems: 1. It took me three days of trying to find a nurse willing to take the time to help me out of bed and onto my feet. 2. Then when I inquired about getting a shower, a nurse informed me the shower was so cold that almost none of the pts would use it. She was right. So they just had to put up with the way I came out of surgery for 7 days --- which explains the crustiness I was referring to: an RRP leaves a messy field. Fortunately, I didn't get any infections, so it wasn't my problem. One surgeon finally took a swipe at my incision with a damp pad ... probably because he couldn't see it clearly. Yes, the whole university surgical staff knew and complained about the nursing situation; they had little control over it. They said my two-page story could add nothing to the litany of problems they had already filed. Heads up, guys going into VA hospitals; make sure a close friend watches over you in those places. They're overworked and over-regimented. Had this one not also been a cancer center and major university teaching hospital I wouldn't have gone near the place. I.P. You go boy... Me... PSA 1.7 3+3 9/05 RRP 10/05/05 Final Path 3+3 T2A Neg. Margins. Doing very well. You'll do just great! All the best. Tom I was lucky. My doctor got me out of the hospital and sent me home one night after RRP. He said I could recover much better at home. My wife drove me and helped me back to my bed. I could sleep through the night, get better food on my schedule, and had a full-time assistant to get me through the two weeks with a catheter. E.Hendrix, You are in my prayers for good results. I was in your shoes about two years ago. Everything turned out well. The worst part of the ordeal was waiting for the surgery. Steve U Your numbers are great! You'll be fine! I planned four weeks off of work after LRP... could have gone back in two (assuming I waited for cath to come out). As it was I took a vacation to Florida (on the state disability dole) the fourth week. Might as well make some lemonade out of that PCa lemon! Take a a break! Ride the waves! |
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