In Which Trep Goes To Hospital. A Lot. (Slight Return)

Thanks guys - it all caught up with me last night and I had to go to bed.

How politely put…

Hey Beck, I’ve had cancer twice, but I definitely give best to you in all things medical. Hang in there girl! :wink:

Yeah, I blame the general anesthetic. It should be:

Thursday 24 October: Nobody had called about the tests, so I rang the surgery. Everything normal and prostate cancer excluded. Eh?

Friday 25 October:

Thanks for that too! But no more cycling for a little while.

I’m with you there. I tried to explain how awful this is when I reported on my first go-around with cancer (linked from Background, top of this thread.) I’ve had (calculates) seven cystoscopies, I think, with more to come this time in routine follow ups. The least awful one (performed, incidentally, by an all-female crew - more empathetic, perhaps? Not sure I have the right word) - was still hideous.

For some reason, this time I wasn’t catheterized. For which I am truly grateful.

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I am glad for the all clear.

And this particular post got a laugh out of me.

Thanks for sharing, and I hope that 4 September 2029 is just beer-colored urine.

Best wishes for a full recovery. I will probably think of better reply on my way up to bed.

A couple of times I had blood in my urine, it was a UTI and immediately zapped by the appropriate antibiotic. Pain disappeared within an hour.

One day I found my urine was a weird red color. Kinda freaked out, I called my doctor and told him there was blood in my urine. He exclaimed, “You can SEE it?” I said yes and described the color. He told me to come right in. I drove to his office and gave a urine sample. He analyzed it immediately, and came back into the exam room looking a little puzzled. He said he didn’t see any blood cells in the urine. He then asked me, “Have you eaten any beets lately?” I almost collapsed in relief. I had had beets for dinner the night before. He explained that beets will sometimes give urine a color like that.

Early in our relationship, my gf made me roasted beets with a balsamic glaze. I ate lots. The next morning I had a bowel movement that totally freaked me out until I thought about what I’d eaten and consulted Dr Google.

Parenting lesson learned; baby diaper looks awfully red OMG SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH MY BABY…wait …check the daycare menu…yep, beets.

Observe 12-24 hours but it really always was just the beets, fortunately. And once, a rather bizarre splotch of paint.

Don’t eat a whole lot of blue and red dyed tortilla chips either. Unless you want a fluorescent green surprise the next day.

This violates everything I know about colour theory.

Apparently yellow digestive tract bile + red/purple/blue food coloring combines to make some … interesting output.

Bile yellow, blue dye…sure. The red makes me expect brown…!

I’m not disputing you, just amused and vaguely disgusted at circumstances that can result in fluorescent green output.

I guess biology is an amazing thing?

I’ve had bloody semen three times in my life, which can be a real buzzkill.

OK, we just need someone who shat blood and someone who vomited blood.

Oooh, I got that one. Hemorrhoids. Quite remarkable amount of blood.

Got “puke blood” for you.