No problem Chris. All is good… very good in fact:
I think the nurse should probably not have answered my direct question "Had it broken out?" in February as her letter didn't arrive until the day (in March) when I was meant to have the telephone consultation with the consultant. I sat for half an hour waiting for him to ring but heard nothing and was getting a tad stressed - a couple of years ago, I waited for a telephone consultation while the consultant was sat in his consulting room waiting for me to turn up thanks to an administrative cock-up! So I rang all the numbers I could to try and find out what was going on and eventually managed to get hold of someone who eventually rang back and said he'd been called away on an emergency - nice of them to tell me. I threw a bit of a wobbler and asked for a face to face which eventually took place in April and he confirmed there was nothing to worry about. There was a small area outside the the margin where he had folded and squeezed the prostate to get it out the tiny hole in my abdomen, otherwise if was all contained and no signs of anything outside.
I had another PSA last Friday morning (and got the results that afternoon as I eventually got access to the hospital database and didn't have to wait 2 or 3 days while the hospital sent the surgery the results and then someone put them on the Patient Access database) and it remains undetectable.
In summary, after being on quarterly PSA tests and the occasional MRI and biopsy for 6 years, I have thankfully caught it just in time. I have had very few symptoms and certainly none that would have had me going to the doctor so I dedicate my remaining years to the daft Scouser who persuaded me to go and ask the doctor to put his finger up my bottom. Cheers Dave, wherever you're making mischief.
