After reading all of the stuff said so far in this string I felt compelled to add my story.
Around 13 years ago, I went through the process of donating a kidney. A week later I was rushed to the E.R. from complications from the donation which ended up causing a large blood clot to close off my bladder to the point of extreme pain and near rupturing. To clear the obstruction, they would normally bring the patient into surgery, but due to the urgency and having all the OR's filled, they proceeded to try to purge it in a regular patient room, using two doctors and four staff (mostly females). It took four people to hold me down while two others performed the extraction. The procedure was to push 100 milliters of saline solution in through the cathader into an already near bursting bladder and then quickly and forcefully draw the fluid back out through the cathader hopefully removing the clot (basically flushing it out). After several attempts, much pain, and near passing out, it was pulled out. I was finally released after a doctor and female nurse used a camera on a tube going up through the front into my bladder to confirm the clotting was gone. By that time any dignity I thought I had was out the window. If i had to do it again, I would still donate my kidney, but perhaps I would check into other hospitals first to get the best facility and doctors available.
CONCLUSION: Always strive to get the best doctors and facilities. Do not use a facility that simultaneously trains new doctors in the process. Check out how many similar surgeries your doctor had performed before yours as well as thier patient feedback. When it's your body and life, you can never be too thorough.
Six years later I was in the best shape I had been in over 25 years just to be told by my doctor through a routine blood test identified a problem. I get my blood screened to keep a check on my remaining kidney. My PSA in my blood all of a sudden went through the roof from one 6 month check to the next. He sent me to a specialist who after accessing my prostate to get samples confirmed I had prostate cancer and was already at an advanced stage (it was a very aggressive type). I really only had two options but I elected for the complete removal as it had the best odds of containing the cancer. The surgery was performed using a robotic machine and they also took all my reproductive organs along with my lymph nodes, prostate, and areas around the prostate too. The result, now six years later I am cancer free.
CONCLUSION: If it was not for my doctors thoroughness along with the 6 month blood screening, the cancer would've most likely never been caught until it was too late. Good and thorough doctors really do matter. Listen to what they have to say as it can save your life.
Hope I didn't say too much here, but I'm telling you THIS STUFF MATTERS. Pride and vanity be damed....Get your prostate and colon screenings!
Then there's the time when my now 93 yr old mom wanted to show us her colonoscopy pictures during an evening meal... now thats a totally other kind of story....
funny now, not then., WOW.
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