Post Follow-Up Follow-Up
**This post was transferred from the now defunct "The Long Ease" blog.** My appointment with Dr. Avallone (Urology Oncologist) today was fucking stellar. Not so much in that I am doing well, because honestly - I'm not. But because he's so completely awesome and so committed to figuring out how to help me. Here's the highlights: My surgery last month removed "stones and necrotic debris" left from the previous surgery/biopsy I had on my bladder last fall. Basically, it never healed. The radiation damage is too concentrated and too severe. The reason I was in such GOD-AWFUL pain and was bleeding so much from the catheter I was left with for 5 days following the surgery is that the balloon that hold the catheter in place was basically right ON the worst part of the radiation damaged area of my bladder. Ouch. No wonder it took me 10 minutes to walk from the parking lot to my desk the two days I attempted to go to work with it. Sheesh! I am b...