I'm analysing this on the blog to see if I can rationalise it.
I keep wondering what just happened to me? I surprise myself sometimes by being so positive when I thought I'd probably be quite down and not so able to cope with a recurrence. The reality is that I'm not in the slightest bit upset about it - perhaps I'm in some sort of denial (no that's not a river in Egypt!).
Could that be it? All bravado and a show of courage, the last act of defiance? No I don't think it is that entirely either. I suggested to a friend of mine that I must have gone through the outcomes in my mind before hand and worked out what it would mean. I hadn't expected a tiny tumour at all - if anything it was going to be one of three outcomes:
- Clear - we move to the next level of flexible cystoscopies
- Presence of Cancer in many places - We go for BCG a complete round - 18 with 3 rigid Cystoscopies
- There are tumours in here - that are cut out (A TURBT) I wake up wired up and we go the round again or have the next conversation about losing the bladder.
Well it is a bit between 1 & 2 which is the strange thing. Let's say 99% cancer free and one rogue tumour that we don't know the grade of. That's still 99% of the bladder that is fine in my view of the world.
So perhaps that is it. I suppose the only down side is that I will be in and out of Hospital a lot more and be back on these 6 monthly full procedures so I'd just better get used to it.
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