Can you imagine the profuse, knee bending, deep bowing apology when you have to ask your King to submit to the digital exam?
“I say, Chuck, old boy, splendid round of croquet, eh what? I liked the way you skewered that final set of hoops. Speaking of skewered, ahh, I not sure how to put this, ahh, there comes a time when, ahh, the health of the nation, umm requires, I’m sorry to say…”
My doctor (who retired 5 years ago and really needs to be replaced) was a real dick about prostate exams. I never objected, never complained, never so much as sighed. Still, while gloving and lubing, he always said, “don’t think for a minute I enjoy this any more than you do”. Every. Time.
He was my PCP for 20 years.
“Oh, quit whining. You’re not Edward II.”
King Chucky is old enough to have had many invasive procedures. Surely he knows its gotta be done. Even to his precious royal ass.
He should keep in mind what women go thru. Pelvics are not fun even to a queen. Having a baby is about as invasive as it can be.
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Your thread title implies that he’s being treated for prostate cancer. If Chuck just had a regular prostate exam, I don’t understand how this even became news.
He had a surgical procedure. The probably multiple exams preceded it.
Ah, thank you. I had not heard about it.
I imagine the only thing worse than having a prostate exam is giving one.
I’ve had a few. I don’t find them painful, uncomfortable, or embarrassing. But I agree with you, I wouldn’t want to give one.
When my gallbladder tried to do me in, I was in pretty rough shape, having gone without sleep for 72 hours of continuous pain. I finally went to a doctor. He examined me and my prostate.
He admitted me to a hospital via their ER, where a doctor examined me and my prostate. I had an ultrasound then was sent to my room for IV drugs and an exam of me and my prostate.
A few hours later I met my surgeon, who examined me and my prostate. The IV antibiotics had me feeling a bit better. My doctor ordered. some meperidine.
I was high as a kite when a custodian came in to empty my garbage can. I asked if he was going to check my prostate. I’ll bet he mentioned that to his wife after work.
There is a test where they pound the hell out of it, breaking loose material that can be collected in a urine sample. I understand it to be very unpleasant.
I felt the same way in the hospital having babies. I was examined 500 times in 3 days.
I felt I was having an intimate relationship with a few of the people.
I don’t think a prostate exam is that bad, though I never had one (maybe I should, at 55 I’m in the right age bracket), but I had rectal exams for hemorrhoids which I think are not very different. I sure would take that anytime over the gastroscopy without any sedation I had a few years ago, now that was traumatic.
May I ask why you consented to gastroscopy without sedation? I’m a bit of a baby about pain. I would have told them no thank you, and they would have given me something (I’ve done just that in the past for an uncomfortable procedure).
I didn’t know much about what awaited me, and I thought that no sedatives was standard procedure. They didn’t ask me. Next time I’m sure I’ll ask before.
Pretty sure my doctors have all considered me a pain in the ass. I want to know every little detail about degree of discomfort, whether my insurance will definitely cover it, etc, etc.
Several times I’ve saved thousands of dollars by questioning, as well as saving myself unnecessary pain.
If you’ve never been sedated before, I can see it being really anxiety-inducing. I say that because I just had a prostate biopsy in November, and I had never been put under before, and I was extremely nerve-wracked about the idea of going under. Like I had an option before when a particular wisdom tooth extraction was not going well and taking upwards of two hours that I refused twilight sedation and just had him keep going with local, even though it wasn’t 100% numb.
At any rate, sedation ended up being a fun and cool experience, and I didn’t die or anything, so yay. But I totally get not wanting it if you have no previous experience with it.
That said, in the whole process here, I went straight from an elevated PSA, an iffy PHI (prostate health index score), to an MRI without having a digital rectal exam. I think the last time I had one was around 8 years ago. (Didn’t really matter, as prostate size was within normal range according to the MRI. I don’t know if they check for other things with that quick poke.)
So if the King has to go under for butthole surgery, does that make William the Prince Regent until he wakes up? Or do they just hope that they don’t need any babies kissed or ribbons cut or troops inspected in the meantime?
Gotcha.