>> What I can say about drastic, life changing and potentially permanent medical intervention is only
>> based on observing how Andy dealt with over 10 years of dialysis and how other
>> renal patients did. It either becomes your life, or it enables your life. To this
>> day I remain in awe of the courage, strength, determination and sheer b***** mindedness it
>> took to live the life he wanted to live, and I rather suspect you’d take
>> the same approach...
My medical path is, Another 6 weeks of BCG, then a check. If that fails (and it just has, so its likely to again) then its Hyperthermic Mitomycin C (heating up the inside of the bladder and then washing it with hot Mitomycin (chemo)) at St Georges, then a check. If that fails its a Cystectomy.
Based on my previous experience of an Ileostomy, I know a Urostomy is manageable, and how to deal with it, albeit knowing this time permanent.
The tough part with cancer I have just discovered - finding you have it, knowing its there, getting rid, being told its gone, is a journey I guess most of us have prepared for. I think I was,
But
Getting it, knowing its there, getting rid of it, and then finding out its back straight away, means at this moment in time, right now, you know its growing again and if left unchecked it will kill ya. There is nothing you can do about it, just wait for the next steps in the process.
Mentally that's quite freaky.
As far as Andy and dialysis goes, Nah I couldn't cope with that at all. Thats far too life invasive
Still I am in awe of Tracey Emin. She has just had her bladder, womb, ovaries removed and her fanny stitched shut. Her reaction? "thank god they saved my clitoris".
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