Monday, 12 January 2026

Photons on the Prostate - XXI: Living with the Trade-Offs

Following the Rules

It is somewhere between following my own rules of "Go Before You Go", or the situation making the rule irrelevant because it simply did not apply. I left church yesterday feeling alright and planned my route home in the rain.

I stopped off at Marks & Spencer, hoping to get a Christmas cake: that thick icing covering the juicy and moist fruitcake, that bargain offer after the season, going for a song. They had everything but that.

I could have made for home directly, but I took a circuitous route, going through an arcade or two, hoping to see a cake shop, until I was approaching home from an entirely different side of town.

The Cold Walk Home

As I was walking through the breezy, cold, barely above-zero weather; a scenario that activates the bladder at a higher frequency and urgency. I quickened my steps, hoping to get home just in time. Much as I did enter the foyer intact, I did not make it into my apartment before an unfortunate recurrence of something I thought was history.

I can report that I have a sufficiently longer time between visits to the toilet, though I might wake up thrice during the night for that too. I do try to gauge what opportunities I have to get to places before I need to wield my "Just Can't Wait" card. It is, however, not an exact science.

Managing the Reality

This is something I have grown accustomed to living with. The apparent safety that incontinence underwear offers means the dangers of embarrassment are reduced. It is usually a leak, then a full wetting.

In view of this, getting rid of prostate cancer through treatment, rather than having full bladder, bowel, and sexual function whilst under the threat of cancer you cannot predict, is always the better option. I would write on the matter of sexual desire at some point.

References

Blog - Men's things XXX: Let's talk Prostate Cancer

Blog - Photons on the Prostate - A year from starting radiotherapy

Blog - A prostate cancer diagnosis, one year on

Blog - Men's things - Prostate Cancer blogs

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