Hello Colleen,
Thanks for the good wishes! I do hope you have a good holiday season also. This is going to be an especially good season for my wife and I, because we are retiring!!! After retiring from 30 years of teaching and coaching, and my wife from legal work, we started a small manufacturing business making pallets and crates for the slate and stone industry and a local high-end lighting company. Been wanting to sell out for a few years unsuccessfully (no one seems to want manual work anymore) and we finally found someone willing to continue the business!
As for your question, I have a great young (to me) urologist who solved my pee problem with the "Green Light" treatment meant to decrease the size of my prostate. She also then discovered my bladder cancer and recommended the BCG treatment. Between her explanation and Google, my wife and I were pretty aware of the mountain we needed to climb. Having just recovered from Lyme, Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis in late 2022, which required a nasty cocktail of medications, I figured just one medication would be tolerable! Actually, other than my bladder telling me I have to pee constantly, I have luckily had no major issues with BCG! I think my bladder is just getting even for the abuse!!!
I realize that I am probably luckier than most with the fairly easy time I had with this treatment, but all I can say is IT WAS WORTH IT!! We can't predict the future, but my motto
(which I learned from a very wise sponsor 38 years ago) TAKE ONE DAY AT A TIME
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