I have my Pathology appointment with the Doc on the 6th of Feb so please keep me in your prayers.
Prayers for peace of my body, mind and cancer and ALSO peace for the body, minds and cancers of EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE ON THE SUPPORT GROUP & THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE WORLD GOD BLESS <3 .
Lord willing the pathology will be similar or with very little difference to the first pathology. We will find out in ~7 days!
Still feeling A LOT better after this TURB in terms of the recovery, pain (or lack of
), and ability to cope with life and work part BETTER.
Maybe they are right when they say you "really do get used to these things" (refering to big, shiny scopes, and the urogential tract).
Even though this is simply "only" my second TURB it just went a
lot better and smoother then the first one.
I am hoping to take the NMI/LG approach to these as possibly just keep having them removed and seeing how that goes for me a few times BEFORE trying BCG. And that is what my current urologist is thinking as well, to see how pathology is, then discuss the timing of whens and if's of BCG during that time period.
Also, I switched insurance to a SILVER plan that both my current Colorado Springs Urologist accepts and also one that Dr Shandra Wilson (19th best Bladder Cancer urologist in the World according to US News & Reports) accepts. She is in Denver and handles around 12,000 patients BC patients (her youngest patient ever was 6, where as my current URO, well I AM HIS YOUNGEST PATIENT EVER
)), where as my uro in the springs handles around 200-300 patients.
I believe this puts her at the cysectomy rate (25 - 50 per year) that you recommended a URO have when performing Cystoscopy and TURBTs on me.
Still love my URO in the Springs, but I gotta switch over to one in which I am NOT his youngest patient. That should give me more of a fighting chance for WHEREVER I choose to do the fightin'
Anyways!, hopefully this is good news, but I have my NEXT cystscopy scheduled in April with Dr Shandra Wilson, because regardless of how good or bad my pathology is when it comes back again, I want to have a renowned bladder cancer expert looking at it, then to not. Plus Dr Wilson works out of an actual cancer center. My current URO in the springs does not,
as there is NO cancer center in Colorado Springs.
Let me know what you think about this, Alan. You're always in my prayers, and your encouragement and insight does wonders for me, Alan. I am making sure that if I have to have THIRD TURBT (it'd be between April and May if I did) that it is (
THIS TIME with a URO that sees A LOT of BC and that URO would be little "miss" Shandra Wilson of University of Colorado Hospital Bladder Cancer Center.
Again must prayer and love, and let me know what you think about my game plan