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@diverjer - with respect to the pelvic floor referral, it may be worth asking that your care team give you the name of the therapy center they’re going to refer you to so you can at least get some appointments in the books now for that 12-weeks and beyond point.

I say that because pelvic floor therapists are notoriously booked out for months, and they may have a hard time fitting you in any time soon. You may walk in there at 12 weeks with your referral, and the scheduler may tell you they don’t have anything available…for another month or two.

I had the same recommendation from my care team - I had to wait 12 weeks before I’d be referred (probably an insurance thing more than anything else), but they gave me the referral at 8 weeks, and even found me a therapist in my area (I live over and hour away from the cancer center).

I called them immediately, and the soonest they could get me in was a month later, which happened to be the 12-week point, but the soonest they could do my second appointment was three weeks after that. Luckily, there was a cancellation and I got in about 10 days later for my second one, and then more or less weekly after that.

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You may want to explain that you are a post-operative prostate cancer patient with subtle, well-thought-out comments on your priority as a patient to be fit into the schedule between all of the postpartum mothers. I think cancer trumps postpartum incontinence.