Hmm, NOW it’s better than I thought. Though to be honest, I’m still taking my AS pain tablets AND the urologist’s ones. I can definitely feel it more when I haven’t taken pills during the night.
So…Cystoscopy, retrograde studies and urethral dilation. How does it feel to recover from those and a polyp removal?
It’s four days later and I’m still bleeding from where I was cut. I can’t sit properly. My urethra was DEFINITELY narrowed. He said I should go back for follow up in a month and to check that it hasn’t narrowed again. Please, no, Father! I don’t know what causes it, but please make sure it doesn’t happen again!
I still feel like I can’t the last drops of urine out. Maybe that aspect will last forever…
The retrograde studies are basically where they bring in an X-ray machine, inject dye into your bladder and check for anything that shouldn’t be there. I assume it was the major cause of the abdominal pain I have fought…I remember the pain of the hyterosalpingogram when I was doing the whole infertility work up thing. The pain as dye was forced into me. So I suspect that was the abdominal pain problem.
Mentally…I’m stressed by Monday’s tests. I hate the pain after they’ve taken pieces of me to biopsy. So I’m not looking forward to that at all. But I’m grateful. Surgery can always go wrong but so far, I’m recovering. It’s more sore than I thought – I didn’t think that sitting would hurt me down there- but it’s bearable with painkillers on board, which is not what we can say for AS pain!
My teen son keeps asking how I am. That makes me happy.
Shabbat shalom to everyone and I hope church/worship was edifying.
They said I should write a book 