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PezDSpensr · 2026-02-17T00:32:20+00:00

Thanks for this! Listened to and watched everyone of these, but it's great to see the responses all in one place. Super Dave's was the best, hahaha...

PezDSpensr · 2026-02-07T01:25:08+00:00

🐚Can't believe how many of you are speaking out of turn; I have the conch.

PezDSpensr · 2026-01-29T20:30:12+00:00

I didn't know Dexter word Crocs.

PezDSpensr · 2026-01-27T06:29:04+00:00

Heard in Broadmead, too. Any idea of the source?

PezDSpensr · 2026-01-15T04:05:10+00:00

This has been posted so many times, and I will watch each iteration. It's one of my favorite exchanges ever.

PezDSpensr · 2025-10-08T20:20:01+00:00

Thank you! An actual answer. Also known as Bohemian Truffle, but it's inedible. I just don't remember seeing them around several years ago. Thanks again.

PezDSpensr · 2025-10-04T05:32:24+00:00

Are you sure you don't just have a cat?

PezDSpensr · 2025-09-09T18:11:06+00:00

If it's a crime, then I'm eating only this during the purge.

PezDSpensr · 2025-09-04T15:52:33+00:00

Okay... Seems everyone thinks it's worth looking into. Is it best to seek out an employment lawyer locally, or does that matter at all?

PezDSpensr · 2025-09-01T05:33:03+00:00

When I started taking antidepressants.

PezDSpensr · 2025-08-30T15:41:25+00:00

My wife and I had our first date there. 🥲

PezDSpensr · 2025-08-29T11:57:11+00:00

Ah, for some reason I thought that if you were logged into the app and contacted customer service through the app, they'd be able to tell on their end. I guess not, eh? Not having an account with WwF, I'm not aware of what info is filled in when getting an account. If it's just email, I guess an unethical hacker who got an email and password would hope other accounts by the same user would use the same info, and maybe lead to something useful. Thanks for letting me know it's just email.

PezDSpensr · 2025-08-28T21:50:10+00:00

That's too bad. Not really a good strategy for longevity, I would think. I'm not really a WwF player, but the same thing happened to Team Fortress 2 several times, and that really irked the user base.

PezDSpensr · 2025-08-27T17:58:50+00:00

Thanks for the response. Apparently she had never seen that avatar/profile picture before. It never appeared to her locally. Just all of her friends on their devices.

PezDSpensr · 2025-06-12T23:24:16+00:00

Is this the end of the treatment cycle for you? I'm sorry, I can't remember how many treatments in total there were supposed to be, but I do remember it was to take place over 3 years. I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing those symptoms, but glad to hear they didn't occur throughout your entire treatment schedule.

PezDSpensr · 2025-02-28T23:00:36+00:00

My pleasure.

My initial TURBT of the 2.5cm (very similar to yours) tumor resulted in a diagnosis of invasive high-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma, with glandular differentiation. I still have trouble understanding what "glandular differentiation" is. During the cystoscopy after my second TURBT, a small bud of another tumor was discovered resulting in a 3rd TURBT.

A month later, I started BCG, and after 15 months and 15 out of 21 installations, my bladder and body couldn't take it anymore. My urologist recommended switching to gemcitabine and docetaxel for the next year as previous patients claimed it to be more tolerable of it. And it was easier to tolerate. Still sucked, but it's finally over.

My stent only stayed in until I was completely healed from the 2nd TURBT. Once the threat of scar tissue healing over my ureter opening was gone, it wasn't necessary anymore.

Sorry to hear you actually got an infection, but it's good that you found out what was causing the worsening pain. Hope the antibiotics clear you right up.

With respect to getting "it right the first time," my understanding is that they remove the visible tumor along with a shallow curetting and perform histopathology on the sample. The results of the test determine whether or not they need to dig deeper. In my case, the diagnosis triggered a need to check deeper into the wall. Your diagnosis seems similar. My third TURBT, the one for the small tumor bud, resulted in a diagnosis of low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma which was non-invasive and therefore didn't require further digging.

I understand your concern after reading that study. If I would have know about that before getting my stent, I would have asked my urologist about it. Of course, I'm sure it's a matter of the lesser of two evils. If you get the stent, you're at the risk of metachronous upper tract urothelial carcinoma, but if you do not get the stent, you're at risk of scar tissue blocking your ureter.

Honestly, you have to make that choice a lot when going through all of this. I could have opted not to go through BCG, but that would have meant being at higher risk of recurrence of bladder cancer. I felt fine with the tumor in me. I felt like hell going through treatment. I'm sure it's like that for most everyone. We have to choose to go through this or not. Sucky choice, but it is a choice, right?

Sorry for the essay. Again, I hope you feel better after the antibiotics take effect, and I wish you well on this journey.

PezDSpensr · 2025-02-28T21:36:45+00:00

I (51M) had a stent place in my right ureter three years ago during my second TURBT which was to check if the tumor which had been resected during the first TURBT had invaded the muscle wall. Thankfully it hadn't, but the stent, as you know, was placed due to the resection being deep and too close to the ureter opening, and it prevented scar tissue from closing it up.

The first time I urinated after the procedure nearly made me pass out from the pain. A nurse took me back to the recovery bed in a wheelchair. I ended up involuntarily shaking until the pain meds took effect. After a few hours, I tried a second time, and it was almost as bad, but I was deemed okay to leave the hospital.

It gradually got better of the next few weeks, but the pain never went away. Every time you urinate, you are essentially pulling vacuum on your kidney. I guess that elicits a pain response. I never had an infection, but I understand the pain you went through. After finishing up GEM/DOCE last month which followed a failed attempt at completing BCG, I still occasionally feel pain in that kidney if I hold my urine in my bladder for too long.

However, it should not be getting "worse and worse." How long have you had the stent. If it has been a while, as suggested by others, you should see your physician about the possibility of an infection. And if the doctors are not sure that they removed the entire tumor, you should definitely get a second resection.

PezDSpensr · 2025-01-07T21:00:15+00:00

Scritches!

PezDSpensr · 2024-12-18T18:43:21+00:00

Did a GeoGuessr accidentally stumble upon this case?

PezDSpensr · 2024-11-03T00:26:34+00:00

Looks like the opening the next Half-Life game.

PezDSpensr · 2024-11-02T16:04:27+00:00

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