Wish you well Tom. Now I understand why after examinations they ask me to void and ultrasound the bladder . They check for retention of urine. I fortunately always empty well. Sometimes the person doing this test will mention that I am the only patient so far that day that did so.

I have been told I have the prostate of a young man. Does that mean some young fellow is running around with my old prostate? I never have the want to use this as a pick up line as I am happily married. Still at my age it might be effective if I were not.

What I find odd as there must be many cases yet nobody has mentioned they had bladder stones before to me. Kidney stones are a fairly frequent mention.

Actually no time for medical humor. I think the majority of us have some apprehensions before proceedures and that is normal. Or at least I have them rational or not. I cannot displace them or become totally fatalistic unfortunately. Some of us just do not really want our body invaded. Anyways I will leave this post with a story.

The doctor said to the patient after surgery that he had good and bad news. The bad news is we amputated the wrong leg. The good news is the bad one is getting better.

Hope my post is not totally inapropiate. Anything that can give you a smile is worthwhile though when facing these type of things. I consider the fact of aging means on average more exposure to the medical profession. The bright side is you are not dealing with cancer of a type that has a high rate of reoccurance. . That is to be really thankful for.