You know the number. Three, some nights four. Nobody has asked you for it.
You agree to nothing by writing to me. Nothing is decided today.
Two small arteries feed your prostate, the way one hose feeds a garden. I close them, and the gland softens off the channel it was squeezing. No cut, nothing through the water pipe. You will see it written as prostate artery embolization. Carry that word to your urologist on Thursday.
Here is the thing most men are too polite to ask me, and I am not lowering my voice. Your friend is right about his own operation.
I never go near the water pipe, so the muscle that closes at that moment is never touched.
Now what it costs you
You are more likely to need treating again than after the operation, and the operation does more about the nights, for longer. That is the trade.
If your urologist told you something that still holds, I will say so and send you back to him.
Pushing rather than pain, and I talk you through each step as it happens.
One day in hospital, no stitch, nothing to heal. Somebody drives you home.
The nights settle over about two weeks, not overnight.
I was filmed explaining this one on television, and the segment sits on my hospital’s channel. Arab Hospital Magazine interviewed me about it in June 2023.
Ask me about the prostate on WhatsAppIt comes to my phone. I read it myself.
