Here's my complaint: When I turned 50 several years ago my doctor prescribed that I have a colonoscopy done. Apparently, at that age, it's good to have it checked. Whatever.
Boy, the trouble you have to go through: not only fast the night before but take this god-awful stuff that makes you poo-poo out every last drop of fecal matter so that those doing the exam have clear sailing when looking to see what's up in there. Well, thankfully, they knock you out with one of those wonderful drugs that make you feel that chemicals are oh-so-much-better than your last meditation so you don't feel that huge plastic thing they shove up your butt to do the exam. My complaint is that while they've got you under and your goddamn sphincter is expanded to accomodate the plastic doo-hickey you'd think they'd kill two birds with one stone! Check my goddamn prostate while you're up there, won't you buddy? If you don't I will, on my next visit to my GP, have to suffer through the doctor sticking his plastic-gloved middle finger up there WHILE I DON'T HAVE THE BENEFIT OF DRUGS and have to be humiliated bent over on his exam table. I've had to go through that twice before with doctors and, no, sorry, I can't "just try and relax" those particular muscles once every 15 years so you can feel around. Why it isn't standard practise to do the prostate exam at the same time as a colonoscopy I'll never know! "Doctors are sadists who like to play God and watch lesser people scream." -- Bren telling Juno while she can't have her spinal tap just yet. From "Juno" --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "I am the eternal" <l.shad...@...> wrote: > > I have a very close friend who has just been diagnosed with prostate > cancer. 3 nodes of the biopsy have a Gleason Index of 7. Otherwise > my friend is in excellent health and recently had an Ayurvedic consult > at the Raj and was pretty much given a clean bill of health. My > friend and I are debating what to do. My friend also lives in Austin, > TX and has the best of medical insurance. He's got a consult > scheduled with a world famous Urologist who has performed 1,200 Di > Vinci robotic prostrate cancer surgeries. The odds are that my friend > will retain full functioning except for that which the prostate > provides because the robotic surgery is so targeted if he opts for > surgery. > > I am urging my friend to not pursue alternate therapies including > Ayurveda to handle the slowing growing cancer (PSA went from 4 to 12 > in 7 years). IMO Ayurveda is a nice preventative but that's about it. > It would be much better if this diagnosis were made in 2090, assuming > humankind still exists then, but the options aren't so bad in 2009. > > Would anyone care to comment about what course of action my friend > should take? Yeah, he's a long time citizen sidha and all that. >
