It could be an opportunity to salvage something beautiful from an ugly situation. My bruises have now matured delightfully and I hope to do some coloured self portraits. I’m also hoping to get slides of the diseased prostate as I’ve heard they are startling, coloured images. I can scroll from the top of my head down to my feet in 350 cross-section photos. I managed to get discs of my PET and CT scans which are pretty sensational. Finbarr reminded me of a great line from the white chapter in Moby Dick, “It’s the paleness of it that is so appauling”. On another occasion it could well have been ectoplasm. This was followed by my first solid bowel movement which was almost white and smelt of flowers. There was much celebration in the ward as the assistant surgeon shared my delight in the return of my farting muscle which was noticably absent for a couple of days. long when they pulled it out) and one mystery hole. Five for the instruments to go in and one for the plasticdrainage tube (like a toilet overflow which was 18 ins. I was wondering before the op about how many holes I would wake up with and it turns out to be six. From the waist down I look like a Chinaman with a black man’s nob. My stomach is shaven and dyed yellow and my penis and swollen right testicle are covered in a dark bruise. Now I wait a month or so for the histology reports following biopsy of what was removed. The same op is a lot quicker with the Jackson Pollock machine but the results tend to be less precise. The operation took less than the scheduled three to four hours and my prostate which is the size of a walnut, was removed through a hole by my belly button. The DaVinci machine has done it’s best to get rid of this cancer and I’m sitting with my feet up minus a few bits I had last week.
I am even wearing a dress as trousers are now most uncomfortable. Search Main menuĪpologies for the impersonal message but the gender-bender pills have turned me into a woman and I have become short tempered and irrational. This blocks testosterone from going into the cells and encouraging growth. Bicalutamide is an anti-androgen hormone that works by attaching itself to the protein receptors on the surface of the cancer cells. A needle is then passed through the wall of the rectum into the prostate where it snips out 12 tissue samples. The transrectal needle biopsy involves an ultrasound scanner guiding a plastic tube that is pushed up the rectum. 7 (made up of the 4+3) is a moderate score between those of slow and more quickly growing tumours. The lower the score, the lower the grade of cancer. The Gleason score looks at the pattern of cancer cells within the prostate by examining the biopsy samples. T3 and 4 are advanced and indicate that the cancer has spread beyond the gland into the surrounding tissue. T1 and T2 are known as localised prostate cancer. Staging is measured on a T scale of 1 to 4. This test is combined with a DRE (digital rectal examination) that gives the first indication of the stage of the tumour. The average for a 60 year old man without cancer should be about 3ng/ml.(nanograms per millilitre). This is produced by the cancer cells and can give an indication of the stage of cancer. The PSA test measures the amount of Prostate-Specific Antigen in the blood. For those who are not conversant with some of the above terms the following may help. A biopsy discovered that the prostate contained a malignant tumour and I was prescribed Bicalutamide tablets until I had a prostatectomy operation on the 7th August. My PSA reading was 65 and I had a Gleason score of 4+3. Magnus Irvin On the 8th May 2012 I was diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer at the Whittington Hospital, London.
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