{"id":235,"date":"2025-03-06T23:34:33","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/?p=235"},"modified":"2025-03-06T23:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:34:35","slug":"rotorootering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/rotorootering\/","title":{"rendered":"Rotorootering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not to get to graphic, but I have an enlarged prostate that has been causing me to have to get up frequently to pee.\u00a0 So after a couple of times where I had blood in my urine, I had one occation where the clots in my pee clogged up my urethra and I ended up going to the E.R. because I was afraid my bladder might burst.\u00a0 Anyway after that visit we went to the Urologist.\u00a0 He did a camera up the urethra to check for bladder cancer and the CT Scan that was done at the E.R. showed that I had an enlarged prostate that was cutting off the stream of the bladder.\u00a0 One of the procedures was to do what the Urologist called a Roto-Rootering. (Officially called a T.E.R.P, I forget what it stands for)\u00a0 Anyway, today was the day for the Roto-Rootering.\u00a0 This involves them putting you under Anesthesia and shoving the Roto-Rooter tool up the urethra and basically clearing out the prostate from the urine canal. Over all it wasn&#8217;t to bad, got up at 4:30AM and were at the surgical center at 6AM.\u00a0 Turns out the Surgical center was only about 10 minutes from our house, especially for early morning traffic.\u00a0 We were all done by 11:30AM and back at home.\u00a0 I will have a catheter for around a week while it heals.\u00a0 Already doing better, I&#8217;ve gone from producing Mt. Dew Code Red to Strawberry lemonaide! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The people at the surgery center were great and were even nice enough to play some Three Days Grace while they were getting ready for surgery, right before they put me to sleep!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/s-l12003364719802261649473.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/s-l12003364719802261649473.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/s-l12003364719802261649473-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/s-l12003364719802261649473-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/s-l12003364719802261649473-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not to get to graphic, but I have an enlarged prostate that has been causing me to have to get up frequently to pee.\u00a0 So after a couple of times where I had blood in my urine, I had one occation where the clots in my pee clogged up my urethra and I ended up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.quikbytes.com\/apps\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}