Radical Prostatectomy

I know you’ll want me to write more of the clinical details, but I’ve been so busy being a patient, so I hope this is interesting. I don’t really have a frame for blogging, but I’ll write what I think and share what I’m experiencing. I guess that’s blogging. So much work pre-op, labs to make sure i can sustain anesthesia, and not carrying Covid-19. This latter was a drive through test. The throat swab no problem, the nose? That stung a bit and burned but I’ll have the results on MyChart in 12 hours. The EKG at my primary care doc showed a left anterior fascicular block (LAFB) that now has to be worked up with a cardiology visit tomorrow. Likely benign as it goes for impact to the surgery, but may have some implications later. Interesting, my high shrill congenital ventricular septal defect disappeared a couple decades back, but now my doc can hear it again? We’ll see the outcome tomorrow. PSA ultrasensitive is at 19 but after the surgery it should be in the 0.02 or so range, cause there isn’t a prostate there anymore. If it starts to rise, then it could mean cancer has spread. I also enrolled in a study related to kegels. Those are pelvic floor muscle workouts that can help with challenges of incontinence later. It’s already known to benefit, this research study is about whether using a phone based reminder app (or not) provides better adherence to the exercises as recommended. I already did kegels as part of my workouts, but not so much, since I haven’t been able to go to the gym. OK, some initial story, but I’ll try to do more. Let me know if you find any of this interesting and if you have questions. Oh, and I signed up for Movember a global charity focused on men’s health particularly, mental health and suicide, and prostate and testicular cancer.