Was the op as bad as you dreaded?
Yes.
And no.
It looks likely that I've avoided one of the semi permanent side effects that was worrying me which I'm very pleased about.
It's a bit difficult to explain without getting a bit X rated.
What I had was a TransUrethral Resection of the Prostate. TURP for short.
I waited in the day patient unit hoping up till the last seconds that it would somehow be cancelled due to Covid, but no such luck.
I got called and I don't mind admitting I was trembling. Normally I couldn't care less, you could operate on this, that or the other anywhere on my body, I have an almost childlike 'faith' in science and medicine. But where this was is what was freaking me out!
I was determined to make light of the process somehow as a kind of deflection so smuggled a bow tie into the hospital and just before I was called tied it, well you can guess where.
I had opted to be fully awake during the procedure so had to bend forwards while the anaesthetist jabbed me in the back. Every time she jabbed, I jumped forwards. "Try not to move" she said. "Try not to jab me in the back with a great big needle and I won't move" I said.
Eventually she got the needle in and quite some time later I was, as they called it, 'cooked'. Strange sensation, I was vaguely aware of my body below my waist but lost all ability to move or feel.
When they lifted my legs into the stirrups the surgeon started laughing and said, "well I can't operate with that there". All the nurses and other attendants thought it was very funny, and surprisingly (to me) I was the first patient that ever did that.
Operation completed I went for recovery, catheter fitted (damned catheter, so flipping uncomfortable and having it removed was an 'interesting' experience.)
Fast forward to now, well on the road to recovery with, as mentioned according to them, some normal issues.
I can assure you, my version of normal looks absolutely nothing like their version!
