Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Winter's Page Michael's Journey-Note the reference to Polka music I wanted to add Michael Vinecki to my Amazon.com list of Famous and Interesting Men with Prostate Cancer. Here's the deal with Listmania...there has to be a product on Amazon to be listed. ( That's how I got on the list....not famous but some might argue …
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I had my biopsy done by a partner during lunch. I took an antibiotic and nothing for pain. My partner did attempt a prostate block but it did not work. He took about 16 samples and it lasted about 20 minutes. It was very uncomfortable. My biopsy experience. I am trying to think if I under …
If you look at prostate diaries you'll see a story called "Diaper Diaries..the screenplay." In the story there is reference to a party that I gave for the OR staff at our hospital about ten days after my prostatectomy. The fourth annual " Pig Jig" was held this past weekend, not at Lake Lanier but at …
I remember the things that went through my head when the realization that I had prostate cancer took hold. For me the toughest part was waiting on the biopsy and wondering if I had the "bad" kind. I now refer to that as the Frank Zappa kind. Then there was the part of knowing I …
My wife and daughter went to the beach recently and as my usual custom I stayed to work to pay for my many ill-advised investments. So...what to do with the pepster,(our most wonderful chocolate lab, have you by chance seen any of her pictures?). I ask one a member of my staff if she would …
A couple of days ago, on a most interesting patient, I performed a prostate biopsy. As we got started it came up that he enjoyed doing impersonations, " I particularly like doing Australians," he said. As I was performing the prostate block and with the patient now on his left side I say," Do some …
I am working on a movie starring the prostate using as the background a song that my brother Rushton wrote years ago...here are some of the lyrics....think of it as the prostate waiting patiently just inside the male's body, harboring asymptomatic prostate cancer, to be examined and then to be taken care of. It's the …
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Dr. Jo-an Baldwin Peters (PhD) is conducting a survey on sexuality in regards to the prostate cancer survivor and the partner of a survivor. Judging by the search queries that my site gets, questions about sexuality after prostate cancer treatment, particularly prostatectomy, is an area of intense concern. There is very little written about it …
Several things...this may ramble a bit. First of all the above is a key chain that the guy that sells the Erec-tech vacuum pump for erectile dysfunction gives me when he comes by. This little trinket was all it took for me the doctor to agree to see him when he comes by. He knows …
From International Journal of Impotence Research Motivations for Seeking Treatment for ED: The Woman's Perspective M P McCabe; H Conaglen; J Conaglen; E O'Connor Posted: 03/29/2010; Int J Impot Res. 2010;22(2):152-158. © 2010 Nature Publishing Group Abstract and Introduction Abstract There is increasing evidence that partners have a major role in treatment-seeking behavior for men …
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