Health and Doctor's Visit Update (July 19, 2018)
(as posted on my Patreon page)
I went and saw the doctor on Tuesday and he went over with me the steps we are going to take in regard to some of the issues discovered in the CT scan that I had done.
He said that my prostate has definitely increased in size and is the likely cause of the bleeding that I am having when urinating (sometimes so bad it looks like fruit punch), this might be alleviated by having surgery to sort of “apple-core” the prostate… going in with a laser and removing part of the prostate that is putting pressure on the bladder and causing the bladder to bleed.
The one thing that is of real concern to him is the thickening of my left bladder wall… when it appeared originally, he had thought (and hoped) that it was a result of the kidney surgery that I had at the end of November last year, however, that was 8 months ago and rather than reducing in thickness, it has thickened more.
Because of this, he is going to physically go in there with a scope through the, you guessed it, penis to do a visual inspection of the bladder wall on August 13 @3pm Eastern Time.
Once that has been done and we can (or can’t) rule out that the bladder wall thickening is possibly cancer, we will begin to discuss the “Apple-Coring” of the prostate and also “Shocking” the 5mm stone that is still in my kidney (using soundwaves to break up the stone so it is easier to pass, apparently).
Aside from the traces of blood, the urine looks good and the blood panels really isn’t showing that I have cancer, but we will be able to rule it out completely (hopefully) once the visual exam takes place in August.
Anyhow, told all of you that I would keep you updated, so I have and, again, thank you for all of your support, concern, prayers and love that you’ve shown me and my wife in this!!!
Now, forgive me, I have some work left to do here and then I need to head out to a funeral for the uncle who helped to watch, babysat and raise me when I was a kid while my mom and dad juggled trying to take care of my baby brothers who are twins.
I will reach out to all of you soon with an update on the v0.5.2.0 release of the game.
Oh, one last thing… if some of you members here are trying to “Friend Request” me on Facebook, please let me know here that you are… so I can add you… if you don’t let me know, I probably won’t, because I hate Facebook spammers and usually only add those that I know… so if you are trying to add me, let me know… and
PLEASE, don’t talk about the game on Facebook, some in my family are Conservative Christians who I don’t want them to know what me and my wife are doing.
Thanks!
~Jack