As a former teacher, I worked with quite a few students with Asperger’s and they are wonderful. They don’t get social cues as others might but they generally do have a massive capacity to dive deep...
Except for the length of time to replacement, mine was 4 years, your healing experience mirrors mine. I had my cuff downsized from a 5 to a 4.5. It’s in a slightly more distal position and the pump...
There are all kinds of games to play when it comes to insurance and taxes. In my state, itemizing dedications, even medical, was taken away but we can have a medical savings account and deduct...
December 21, Happy Solstice, the actual Reason of the Season....
I traveled 5 states away to Cleveland CLinic. The first trip was for a consultation where I had an exam and met the surgeon, liked what I heard, and decided to have the treatment there. While there I...
It bring me no satisfaction but pushes me close to PTSD....
In another curious study: “Exposure to sugar rationing in the first 1000 days of life protected against chronic disease“ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39480913/ ...
This is one of the basic rules of this forum. We likely all need to be reminded of it from time to time.[/quote] Unfortunately that is not the case and why I have reduced my time here. After all,...
As in any situation, review your options, make your decision, stick to it. If you come back here and share, be prepared to hear that whatever choice you made, you were wrong in doing so....
I’m not getting into that debate but it has gone one for MANY decades. I collect “found sounds” primarily by scrounging reel-to-reel tapes from estate sales, etc. I am particularly interested in...
What came to mind for me was the album “Shock: Music in Hi-Fi” which has some great screaming by Gertrude Warner (AKA one of those who played Margo on the “The Shadow” radio series.) I have this...
The subject of hobbies is near and dear to me particularly what is suggested about physicians posting their hobbies. During my last few years as a high school teacher we were doing a school...
IMO, unlike a RALP the installation of the AUS is a much simpler procedure. Prior to making a decision about who and where for the RALP I watched a video of the entire surgery online. Wow. When I...
Got my colonoscopy last week and the path results showed up in the portal last night. 2 polyps removed, both were Tubular Adenoma, AKA pre-cancerous, the same as 6 years ago so do nothing but have...
I had mine replaced at the 4 year mark. Recovery experience was pretty the same. Although not recommended by my urologist, I got back to distance running at 3-weeks post-op with no negative effects....
Congrats of the project and thanks for the update. I just finished a project to run all the streets in my city, which took my 19 months and 1,057 miles. I did 194 runs and blogged each one with...
More than scolding, more like a personal attack. Most people don't want to be told and don't want to change their ways....
Those all died from “the click of death” long ago. Yes, maintaining digital requires backing up to maintain access. Cloud storage is a pretty good way to deal with that. Analog data is much more...
Some of us can. I have retrieved the sounds from recording tapes made in the late-40s (on paper tape) and other tapes through the 80s. I’m also equipped to retrieve sounds from wire recordings made...
As a fellow Montanan, hang in there and watch out for those bears....
I was showing blood clots in my urine up to 3 months post-surgery. The urologist said it was all normal. It eventually cleared up....
For your first question, when I had mine replaced (after only 4 years) between the time of replacement and activation I was pretty much fully incontinent and going through 4-6 pads/day. I just...
Thanks for the update. It sounds like this is going to work for you. As I wrote in an earlier post, it’s not a diet as much as a lifestyle change and if one looks at it as an adventure and not about...
I had a related experience a few years ago. I’d done a poor job lifting a dog crate out of my truck and ended up with back pain that radiated down my right leg. I went to the walk-in clinic and saw...
I’ve had medical students attend my appointments quite a few times. I am always asked ahead of their presence and as a former teacher I feel I need to say “Yes.” We just had our state’s first medical...
Dr. Brown, Billings Clinic....
They did a full replacement: balloon, cuff, pump, and all the tubing. My uro said that a cuff-only replacement was possible but with the average replacement running something like 7-10 years, she...
Mine started leaking, bad, at 4 years and I had it replaced a few months ago. I am totally dry again....
As you can see from my data below, my situation, except for age, was very similar to yours. My uro had me doing annual with her for just a couple years and then turned me over to my PCP. I just had...
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ck77k80nlwro...
A couple years ago, well into the pandemic, I started feeling sick: fever, fatigue, etc. My wife was concerned because, except for PCa, I really never get sick with anything: flu, colds, virus, etc....
When I asked my uro about the sling vs. the AUS she suggested the AUS. She said that either could work but her reasoning was that as a distance runner, the sling isn’t recommended. Something to do...
I am a FB user but can’t remember seeing ads for much medical stuff. I just took a quick look through my feed and see ads for ear plugs for motorcycling, motorcycle seat covers, Toyota, car polish,...
That guy weighed about 300 pounds and pushed his one leg into my area (I was on the aisle), slopped over the armrest, and pretended to be asleep. I admit I might have coughed in his direction once...
The way I see things is that once we have passed on our genetic material and our offspring have survived to the point where they can pass on theirs, we have outlived our sole purpose and the...
Here’s hoping for a complete recovery. I lost the same virginity last November. I was fully vaxxed and had the booster in September of October. In November I flew to Pittsburgh to visit my son and to...
In my experience, Terry is correct in all regards. I mentioned it to my urologist and pretty much got a nod that it is a new normal. What I would like to mention is that I have an AUS and the...
A fantastic example of what he can do. Thanks for posting that....
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/13/entertainment/david-sanborn-death/index.html One of my personal favorites who I saw live many times. One of the best shows was when he guested with the Long Beach (CA)...
Yes, exercise, for so many reasons. I am currently on a 2-3 week long motorcycle trip across the country. I do about 400 miles/day and I camp out. From Montana I met my son in Pittsburgh and we rode...
For what it’s worth, I was on a mostly plant-based diet for decades before PCa so one just never knows but I still stick to that diet for cardia vascular reasons and there I believe it has paid...
Several of my running partners work at our local hospital so listening “shop talk” is frequent on our runs. One woman works in IT, training docs on the various software packages and another is a...
^^^ This ^^^...
I do the same and then some. I make up a batch of an oatmeal mixture I can use as “overnight oatmeal” where I add water and let it sit overnight in the fridge. Or add warm water if doing it in the...
I make all my own salad dressings and quite frequently they are oil-free. I use ground flax seed or chia seeds as thickeners. Recipes are easily found in the web. Another advantage of flax and chia...
I guess it just shows that there is plenty of randomness in the universe. On a side note, perhaps it runs in the family but most males on my family tree die of cardio-vascular disease before it...
That salad sounds great. I really like tempeh too. My wife went through breast cancer and is now avoiding soy so that’s not a big source in our diet anymore but I do use soy when I cook just for...
While I shared my friend’s story I guess I can share a bit of my own and why I made the change so long ago. It started when I took a biology class in college. I needed the science credits and the...
About 15 years ago, my teaching/coaching/running partner lost parents to cardio vascular disease and then a sibling had an issue. He talked about looking into his his own numbers but what pushed him...
While it wasn’t medical school, in my late-30s I decided to chuck my career (engineering, design, construction in the petro-chem area) and went back to college for a couple years and trained as a...