Some of you may know I had a failed RC. I still have my bladder although it's not used by my body. Monday afternoon around 1 PM I started having painful spasms and the overwhelming feeling that I had to go. I went to the toilet and there was a substantial fluid discharge from my penis that looked like mostly blood and tissue or clots. This went on for most of the afternoon with a frequency of about 45 minutes to an hour between these discharges with the amount of fluid being between 2 to 6 or 8 ounces perhaps. At 4 I called the cancer center where I received btreatments and spoke to a doctor. He said that while I could go to the ER, there probably wouldn't be much they could do, and to try and wait it out until morning and be seen by doctors at the cancer center. This made sense to me because I hate the long waits at emergency rooms as well as the fact that sometimes I'm not even seen by a doctor for several hours if at all. This went on all evening and by midnight I could notice the discharges becoming much more frequent and heavier. I was getting kind of scared at the amount of blood I might be losing so I made the decision to take my chances at the ER so I called someone to come stay with my daughter. The wait there was a couple hours and they did blood work and took urine for a culture. After he got the blood work back the doctor said all my levels were acceptable so I was relieved that the blood loss wasn't as bad as I thought. I had just finished up a 10 day cipro prescription for a kidney infection and he also informed me that the infection wasn't gone and that was very likely behind the bleeding and discharges as well as a flare up of my lymphedema in the past week or so. He said he wanted to watch the urine culture over a 2 day period and prescribed another antibiotic, bactrim, for the interim, saying he might change that to a more specific antibiotic Thursday. I'm still having the bloody discharges today and I'm very sore and also tired since sleep has been sporadic. I've also had a great deal of nausea so I haven't really eaten anything I can hold down for awhile either. I may add more to this tomorrow when I hear what he has to say.



