Surprising what you can learn to live with though …providing there is no pain involved.
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One thing I’m having trouble coming to terms with is weight gain. I’ve never had a big belly before but I’m told the hormone drugs taken for the Prostate cancer can cause it. Not only that but I have to take steroids now to overcome the possible side-effects of the hormone drugs. That’s something else that can cause weight gain. My appetite is healthy but not excessive.
The only thing I can try for mitigating the problem is to exercise some more but if I do that, it can cause a problem with bleeding from the kidney. I sometimes think I’ll stop taking all medication and just get on with life. I know of someone with cancer who did just that and lasted three years fairly healthily until he dropped. At aged 80, if I got that amount of time it would be pretty good.
Yep, been there done that, absolutely hate it!
It’s the way the tracksuit bottoms waistband keeps slipping down when there isn’t a waistline anymore that is really annoying. I just can’t bring myself to wear them with braces. 
Awwww…Tell me about it @mart since I stopped running my middle is expanding beyond belief. I go out walking and cycling most days but it won’t shift. Apparently with heart trouble fluid can build up in ankles and tummy, and some of my medication has given me breasts that Mrs Fox would be proud of. I normally take a 34" inch waist in trousers but they are getting so tight and uncomfortable and if I go to a 36" I have to keep pulling them up and they make me look like coco the clown. Too wide in the leg…Like you described, with no waist trousers just slide down below the hump…Why don’t they make a 35" waist?
All the clothes I seem to try on these days aren’t made for a human frame. Either the sleeves are too long, or they are short in the body, or the legs are made to fit humpty dumpty or Max Wall.
Sorry double post…
That was always my adult size. I haven’t measured lately. I think the best course might be to take down the full-length mirror just opposite the bed.
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Nephrostomy tube change day today. An uncomfortable but mostly painless procedure that should only last about half an hour. It involves laying on my front while some really heavy covers are put all over me all apart from the X-Ray target area. I think they must contain lead for protection purposes.
It’s an all-purpose X-Ray bed that doesn’t have a hole in it for the face like a massage bed does. They supply a well padded pillow to rest the neck on so that breathing can take place. As I say though, just an unpleasant half an hour. It might be more uncomfotable laying on my front than last time because of my expanded girth. We’ll see.
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Good luck with that Mart…Hope it goes well.
I’ve got a few visits to the hospital in the next week or two.
One visit to check out my pacemaker/defibrillator equipment, and the other for cardiology.
I bet we are both on first name terms with the nurses…
Aye, you, Mart, and ! Mine is every six weeks.
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Well that was more long-winded than I thought it would be. I was admitted to the pre-op ward rather than going straight into Radiology. Gowned up, a Cannula inserted and I was put on a trolley. Wheeled down on the trolley to have the replacement done when the time came. The cannula was used for antibiotics.
I think the extra treatment was maybe because I am prone to waterworks infections. The last one had the name ‘sepsis’ as part of the wording.
The tube leaves the kidney in a sideways direction rather than downwards as it was before. Something to get used to. A small thing like that makes it necessary to change procedures/habits a bit… Wheeled back to the ward for half an hour observation before being discharged. They gave me a sandwich, some biscuits and a cup of coffee. Great service all round as usual.
Anyway, that’s it for a couple of months. I said I thought it was every three months but I expect the Urology Department will decide.
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