Last year around summer time I found blood in my urine, having had several bouts with kidney stones and several bladder infections a trip to my GP meant that a course of antibiotics should clear things up – it did, no more blood. Christmas comes around and the blood returns, more antibiotics seemed once again to do the trick. Fast forward to May of this year and the blood and assorted blood clots came back with a vengeance, early one Sunday morning it was especially bad, in a panic I head of to the local ER who perform blood tests, ultrasound and a C/Scan to be told that I don’t have kidney stones but the wall of my bladder has thickened. I remember asking the young doctor “Could it be Cancer?” his reply was that would be the extreme and they were referring me to a Urologist.
Never had a consultation with the Urologist but receive a phone call to show up for a cystoscopy a week later. Now I meet the Doctor for the first time. Being nervous I asked him seeing how it was 8:00 in the morning if he had had his first cup of coffee, seeing how he was going to be shoving instruments up my Penis (aka Mr Winky) it might break the tension I was feeling – it didn’t.
Just a little bit of freezing cream for good measure and IN WE GO…..
If you had this done you know this is not pleasant, if you haven’t this is not pleasant. The next thing I hear is “Look at all that Cancer !” Bonus I get to see it all in HD on a 36 screen in front of me and OUT WE GO…. I’m walked into his office to be told “This is bad, really bad we need to deal with this right now” and we need to get that out of there…..
