Newly Diagnosed, 69yr old Male

I've been dealing with kidney stones so this masked the cancer and delayed it being found. A stone they were going to remove via surgery pulled a vanishing act so the surgery was cancelled. Apparently I managed to pass a 6mm stone with zero discomfort. Still scratching my head over that. They were planning to do the cystoscopy while I was unconscious.

So now it gets rescheduled to Feb. 25th and I have to be conscious for it. It wasn't pleasant but I only gasped once or twice 😀 What the Doctor found was 1-3 areas of "High grade urothelial carcinoma" (they biopsied a cancer cell found in my urine). I could see the cancer on the monitor, it was presented as red on a whitish blue background. The largest area was close to my right ureter so that'll need a stint/shunt (whatever it's called) to keep the ureter to the right kidney open.

What's next is outpatient surgery on March 10th to see if the Doc can use the loop to scrape out the cancer. I am mostly concerned about post-operative pain, I have had some serious illnesses in my lift but nothing painful. When I got home from the Feb. 25th procedure I needed to urinate and OMG I thought it was pure acid coming out of me. The Doc doesn't think I've had the cancer long enough for it to spread past the 1st layer, from research it starts to become a problem when it reaches the 3rd muscle layer.

My wife is more worried about this than I am, I reviewed the 3 methods to replace the bladder and none of them would be that life-altering for me.

I'd like to hear anyone's experience with the aftermath of the "scraping" of bladder cancer and perhaps what questions I should ask the Urologist.