Sorry to hear of your issues tekwzrd. Thoughts and prayers your way buddy. Any health tips you’ve learned or that you think we could benefit from that you’d care to pass on to us?
Still trying to get past the first hurdle - approval of the pet scan. Three requests and three denials by insurance. The bladder cancer is bad enough but the inguinal hernia and hydrocele they want to do surgery for at the same time as the eventual bladder surgery are unbearable. Anything over 5 minutes on my feet and the hydrocele becomes very painful. Sitting is almost as bad. The urologist said it’s the biggest hydrocele he’s ever seen.
If I do come up with any tips or ways to help cope I’ll pass them on. 4:05 am and awake waiting for 4:30 pain meds.
Pick your poison:
- Dying unmarried & leaving behind grieving parents without anyone to support them
- Your offspring turns out to be an unbearable manchild that exists only to ruin your retirement life looking after them
Nobody just “turns out to be” an unbearable manchild. It’s all about upbringing.
Potato Bugs/Jerusalum Crickets. Those things are freaky.
A hydrocele, wow, that sounds really nuts! (I hope I made you chuckle) 
Now that you mention all of that, the thought of living with severe pain scares me a lot. Dying, meh, no big deal. But I’m a big wuss about pain.
May your pain med doses always be efficacious.
So sorry to hear that. Sending prayers your way for healing, rest and approval of your pet scan. I work in the insurance industry and know it can be hard to get authed for some tests. I think you will eventually get out though.
Hang in there.
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