Reality and the next steps

Work is good; very good.  I like this job and the people I work with a great deal.  I feel valued; I contribute and I have nothing but positives.  It's been a joyful uplifter.  

Clover is now seven months old; she's a happy, healthy, sweet and very loving kitten and she brings us nothing but happiness.

My health is in a state of slight imbalance.  Saw something slightly alarming last month and made an emergency trip to my urologist.  He scheduled a cat scan and a cystoscopy - his fear was possibly bladder cancer.  Having been down the road with the prostate cancer scare two years ago, I simply said "let's schedule these."

I saw my regular physician a week ago - my blood tests showed even lower cholesterol and glucose levels than before; my blood pressure is normal and healthy.  The blood test and catscan showed no bladder cancer.  The cystoscopy, which was painful but not like the prostate biopsy, showed that my bladder is now being compromised by my enlarged prostate.  So...  I will have to have a procedure - most likely in October - to basically reduce the prostate and restore full function to my bladder.  It's not surgery - no cutting - but I will have to be in the hospital for at least a day or two.  It's called "aquablation", done with lasers and water.  It takes less time than a colonscopy and has a 98% success rate, which is very reassuring.  The negative - I'll have to have a catheter for the five days of immediate recuperation, which is something I'm having difficulty in trying to digest.  The process is:  go in on Thursday; be discharged on Friday - come back on Tuesday for the catheter removal.  Very hard to imagine.

But - in order to regain some normalcy with my body, it must be done.

So, as always, I'll just go forward.