I'm going to keep this short since I've been having trouble with
Google this evening:

LRP 7:30 a.m. on Monday, October 20th.

Discharged from hospital 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, October 21st

Wednesday was what he calls "the worst day of my life" with gas and
bloating so severe that he literally wanted to die.  I checked Ron
Voss's RP Survivor's Handbook and then assured Don that this was not
an uncommon side effect.  I won't go into the gross details of his
day, but the problems were finally resolved.

Today was much better; when I got up this morning he had already made
coffee and retrieved the newspaper from the driveway.  We went on two
long walks in the glorious Calfornia sunshine.

Here's where his sense of humor is returning: when I reminded him that
he could no longer father children (his children are 31 and 32 so he
doesn't want any more anyway), he replied "I can't have any more
because I had a radical vasectomy"!  I guess that's one way of
referring to the surgical procedure.

He's had no pain from the surgery and only took Vicodin yesterday to
help him deal with the gas pain.  Hasn't touched pain medication since
8:00 yesterday morning; no pain from the surgical procedure, only
soreness from his five small incisions with extra tenderness where the
JP drain was removed Tuesday morning.

All in all, except for his diminished energy and strength (and the
worst day of his life), this hasn't been difficult at all, just
inconvenient.  The catheter isn't bothering him, he hasn't had any
bladder spasms, and he's begun to crack jokes and make fun of Mr.
Foley.  The catheter comes out next Tuesday at 10:00 a.m.

I did tell my sister-in-law that it never occurred to me to even
consider that all of the cancer wouldn't be removed during surgery.
We'll see if the path report supports my gut feeling.

with gratitude to everyone in this newsgroup ...  Linda in Clayton,
California