2021-OCT-29-0930Hrs
I am a bit of an expert on prostate cancer...having had a prostatectomy back in 2002 when I was 55. There is a better option now especially the DaVinci robotics surgery, which is nerve sparing.
Severed nerves is the risk in this surgery. But without the surgery the options are bleak. Although I know someone from Marabella who, like the late Lord Shorty, tried bush tea. He too is now "late".
Prostate cancer leaves you with no bargain really, and some men risk death by avoiding surgery which they believe would emasculate them.
Selwyn Cudjoe had a prostatectomy and wrote a hilarious account of its effects on him in one of his columns. His main point was that he is alive, though a somewhat softer man.
This is the disease that took the lives of Lloyd Best, Carol Keller, and Keith Smith. Large men.
It leaves you between a rock and a hard place. Or something like that.
The local problem is that there is a shortage of urologists. Sawh is the big guy, but Carol complained bitterly about him.
I have heard from Dr. Strisiver my General doctor at St Augustine private hospital that they have the da Vinci option at the hospital.
Brachy therapy is another option, radiation seeds planted....but that depends on how close is the cancer to the skin of the prostate.
Scratchie.
Theodore Lewis 69
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