Testicular Cancer Long.....

[Hog]

About 5 minutes after i pressed "Post Reply" on my above postlast night , the door rang. I went upstairs and answered, an old friend was there and gave me some bad news. She has an agressive form of cancer which has metastisized throughout her lymph nodes. She was bald, wearing a scarf, I was floored, chemo and radiation but prognosis is not good. I hadnt seen her in a while, last couple times were at the hospital I'm at, but she said she "was just getting bloodwork".

Anyhoo, I was doing a self exam one day in the shower and I felt something, so I went to the Urologist. I told him that I had found "something, in the North Pole region of my left teste", he giggled and said he had never heard it described that way before. He then said" Let me guess, you found this bump, and now you have been playing with it at every ocassion and now it's sore?" I replied "Yes, but it's not sore." He continued, "only 2-3 people in this county get testicular cancer each year, so stop doing you self-exams".
I always though, "What if I'm 1 of the 2-3 people?" Needless to say I still do my self-exams, I was 24 at the time, now I am 34 and all is good, turns out that I was palpating a natural part of the testicular anatomy, but couldn't feel the "bump" on the other teste. I have a good friend that had a teste removed due to cancer 8 years ago now, he WAS 1 of the 2-3 a year in the county, no radiation, no chemo-but he refuses testosterone supplementation, his waist has grown substantially, but is otherwise healthy.

LGAFF-I am also surprised that a lot of things weren't documented as well. I can't beleive they didn't record what type of metal clip was used. Thank-you very much for the kind words, I'm almost there.

peace
Hog