This medical event has kept me out of the loop. I couldn't focus on being creative, I had no clue how long this process was going to take and now, finally, I'm coming out the other side, feeling better, and ready to start getting back to being creative and writing more music. I've been listening to songs on the forum and reading and occasionally commenting during this time. And I've been doing a lot of sleeping and resting as well. Heck I didn't even train my dogs very much and you know when I don't train my dogs...... that means I'm not feeling good.

This whole chapter of my life began at 3am on Feb 3 when I couldn't urinate. That's not good, and it quickly became painful. A short time later, yeah, I put off the inevitable, "yeah this requires a doctor" as long as possible, but I woke my wife and said we needed to go to the hospital. It wasn't fun but the emergency room got things kind of back to normal quickly. Kudos to the nurses there. A visit to the specialist a few days later gave me insight into a few paths forward. One was medication and the other was surgery. A two week follow up and it was quickly evident that surgery was the only viable, long term fix, solution. Then were the weeks of waiting for insurance to be pre-approved and scheduling the surgery. Meanwhile living with "tubes". Yeah..... not fun.

Surgery was on March 26th and went well. The surgeon was pleased and said to come to see him for follow up 2 days later. Surgery was out-patient. I went home a few hrs after. Amazingly, mostly discomfort and tenderness but no pain to speak of. Two days later, they removed the tube and told me to go home and call them if I had any problems. No problems presented. I have another follow up April 3 but I'm recovering well so I think everything is mostly behind me now and going forward it's maintenance.

So at this point I'm recovering well. Doc said No manual labor or strenuous work. No pain and I'm headed back to normal as they said I would. Eight weeks total, I'll not soon forget. It's amazing the things you learn from events like this. This appears to have fixed a number of issues I was having.

Anyway, I'm feeling better than I have in many years and because of the surgery, this will never be a problem for me again.


One more thing..... If you are an older man, and you want more information.....just PM me and we'll talk on the phone. I don't want to give TMI on this forum.

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