Today was cystoscopy day at Northeast Urological. I've been somewhat worried, because Cancer sucks.
I messed up and arrived an hour earlier than scheduled. My calendar said 1:50, but my brain said ten to one. Oh well, better early than late. I sat in the car and watched the rain and listened to an XM Beatles Station. Time passed quickly (or so it seemed).
I arrived to a full waiting room. After checking in and providing my specimen, I join those waiting to be seen. However, it wasn't long before I heard my name being called.
I was grilled to confirm my identity while following the nurse to the 'special' room. Everything was arranged and just waiting for me to drop trow and assume the position.
It felt like a long time, but it was probably 10 minutes when Dr Previte arrived. He went through his notes and recited the litany of procedures and treatments bringing me up to today's procedure. The doctor said that the monitor was on the fritz, so I couldn't watch today. Not that I knew what I was looking at, but it was interesting to see nonetheless. Well not today. The doctor said that he'd be the only one seeing what's going on (or not). I was fine with that.
In lieu of my watching the camera being pushed around, I got a blow by blow description of what he was seeing. I was happy to hear the words: clean, looks good, and beautiful. He even said he looked into my verticulum and it was clean. "That BCG works for you", he said.
After pulling out the scope, he was thinking aloud and said, my next steps would entail my next round of BCG maintenance then another Cystoscopy. He said the BCG will start in January-ish and the scope sometime February/March. He wanted me to have my PSA tested again in a week. [I've already scheduled that].
He wished me a Happy Thanksgiving and told me to pick up some paperwork on the way out (for the PSA test).
I'm elated that this treatment is working for me after an initial failure.
More to come!
