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Re: Trying again for some advice

Written by Don at 09 Feb 2003 15:03:27:

As an answer to: Re: Trying again for some advice written by Ralesk at 09 Feb 2003 13:39:12:

HI again

OK I do appreciate the replies this time around - Ralesk - my original post was to this group - on 1st Feb 2003, under my name Don - I did use an alternate email addy that I have - spam reducing technique but still a valid email address.

To answer yours and Rood's questions - the foreskin did not split totally just along a fracture line that had some much inflamed scar tissue on it that it wouldn't heal and couldn't be retracted at all by this stage to be cleaned. The problem set in at Xmas (with a vengence that is - obviously phimosis was present before that) and I was plannig to deal with it in a conservative fashion and make sure I was totally informed etc as I went along. But life intervened and as a family we got really bad news regarding my wife's health first week in the month - advanced Ca with secondaries and heading immediately to chemo etc - prognosis uncertain in the extreme. This was the week my foreskin chose to split internally the length of the scar tissue - basically from the glans tip to the glans end.. I rang a clinic here I had been to in the past and said.. :fix it: I had more on my mind than my foreskin to be honest.

When complications set in - infection and allergic reactions - I did of course contact the surgeon but thought help and personal experience would be useful - hence my posting at the beginning of the month. I am not normally as short tempered as my second post would lead you to believe but this isn't me at my best.

The FAQ recommended earlier (thanks AJ) led me to Procirc and I joined and posted to them . I am sure you are right it will work out - time will tell.

anyway
Thanks
D.


>thanks for the replies - obviously I was sent to the incorrect forum in the first place when I came here. To answer some of the questions you ask before i leave your company. The procedure was an emergency - my foreskin has basically split and come apart - wasn't a lot of choice there.
>Wonder why they couldn't stitch it together or didn't try that in the first place ¬.¬
>BAMM, down with it.
>>Yes I have been back to my consultant - just straight answers from him I am finding difficult to get - I will go to another guy and check in with him.
>>Yes I had read the faqs and I was aware of the swelling, bruising etc and yes 3 weeks later they are going down - I just wondered and was asking from those who have had it done does it go down completely - obviously not.
>Well, with time is should go down completely. Just not in 3 weeks for everyone.
>>and lastly - on the subject of nasty comments - the one about listening to the anti-cut group - thanks I will remember that in the next cycle of life - I was genuinely upset a few weeks past and posted a query to a discussion forum and waited through a barrage of posting about people imitating each other - give me a break - how deeply did I need to read into that. However, you were right I didn't realise I was in the wrong place.
>Well, wait a minute here --- "trying again for some advice", sorry man, why did you put such a topic if you didn't come here for advice earlier, but to another forum? That subject line suggests you 1) have been here before and asked something and 2) either got an answer and didn't listen (honestly, I've seen some) or didn't get an answer at all (I have yet to see such!).
>I apologise for my words, but I believe you were quite unclear about your past, weren't you?
>Well... heal well.


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