I wrote about three weeks ago, saying I was about to have a male urinary sling implanted (Advance XP from Boston Scientific) and some of you asked me to report back. I am almost a week out from that surgery and leakage has been reduced to my liking. True, I have a lot of healing and recovery to go, because the original reason for this choice was stress incontinence during exercise, and I'm not allowed to return to physical activities until April. But already I feel more secure with "in the pipeline" liquid. That's what I call the urine below the pelvic floor but still in the urethra when I thought I was done urinating. If I stood up from the toilet, or just stopped peeing at a urinal, there was a half teaspoon or so that would drain out thanks to gravity. Or I'd be drying myself off after a shower, and all of a sudden, some urine would drip out, even though I have good pelvic floor control. So far, that leakage has stopped. I will not go into the real details of the surgery and recuperation today but will elaborate if requested to do so. Let me know.