There’s a very old George Carlin comedy sketch about dogs. Dogs are always waiting for something, he says: waiting to be walked, waiting to be fed, waiting to be fussed; sometimes, just waiting to wait. I’m naturally reticent to knock…
Author: John Curd
Male Openness
Shortly after the results of my delightful transrectal prostate biopsy confirmed that I was, in fact, developing a case of prostate cancer and having leapt at the radical prostatectomy solution [Ed: just can’t resist getting on the solution bandwagon, eh?],…
Professional Opinion
During my Movember series of blog posts concerning prostate cancer, a close friend mused, “I wonder what the medical folks would do themselves?”. “Excellent question”, I said, rapidly planning another Movember article, “I have some input on that topic”. The…
Hancock’s Two Hours
We’re getting very close to being up to date in my Movember-supporting series of prostate cancer blog posts – blogging in real-time, as it were, instead of retrospectively. As a result of our Meeting the Surgeon on 21st September, the…
Meeting the Surgeon
It took surprisingly little time, considering that this is the NHS we’re talking about, for things to start moving once I had chosen a radical prostatectomy as my preferred course of action. After a little over a week, an appointment…
Decision Time
Following my prostate biopsy in late August, ‘t was results time in mid-September. The truth came as no real surprise to me, my prostate was misbehaving and had developed a touch of cancer. 14 samples had been taken. One sample…
Transrectal Biopsy Delights
Such a wonderfully descriptive phrase, transrectal biopsy. In my five year journey to my current PSA-out-of-bounds stage, I have learned some interesting things about transrectal biopsies of the prostate gland. My consultant and specialist nurse discussed the possibility of a…
Pesky PSA Monitoring
One of the tests to check for the possibility of prostate cancer is a blood test to determine PSA level. PSA = Prostate Specific Antigen, a protein produced by one’s prostate gland. As I understand it, an increased level of…
Consulting the Consultant
OK, so, five years ago, having established that I could not simply ask for a blood test to check my PSA level, I made an appointment to see my GP who administered the other relatively common test, the DRE (Digital…
Passing Out Parade
[Ed: It’s necessary to suspend any smutty schoolboy humour for this one.] A couple of weeks ago, an appointment with the specialist nurse at my hospital’s urology clinic turned up. D-Day was Thursday and H-hour was 1:00 PM. Though the…
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