@surftohealth88 Oh yeah, this sounds like me too. I actually had to start a blood pressure med because of stress. Hope to go off of it later. Thanks for the good advice.

For notes; I totally relied on my wife because I realized if I focused on note taking, I would stop the thinking process on questions. I even had my daughter and son-in-law listen in via phone for two of the early consults (they are both doctors at Stanford-one internal med and the other family practice). To continue the dad brag, my son, who is a PMNR doc, will be with my wife while I'm in surgery to keep her in a good place.

Yeah, my surgeon at Northwestern didn't actually have a number for the number of surgeries, but guessed it was way over 1,500...but I suspect it's a much bigger number because he has been there something like 15 years and I believe is their number one surgeon for surgeries performed. He leads their fellowship program.

The procedure he does is a fascia sparing approach that spares the bladder neck and preserves more of the fascia area to help with continence. There's a video of the actual surgery, but I can't bring myself to watch that.

I'm in a much better place now. I be lying if I said this "promotional" presentation on Focal was a good test for me. But, now know that I don't qualify for Focal. I'm locked in...