Stories

In July 2014 I had lumbar fusion surgery and little did I know that in approximately 90 days I would be diagnosed with bladder cancer. As I was preparing to...

Well, today I received my transurethral resection of a bladder tumor (TURBT). IV went in easy, they briefed me and then I got the good stuff. I don't remember anything...

Hi, I am submitting this story for my hubby, Paul who was diagnosed in the fall of 2021 with Primary urinary Bladder Adenocarcinoma (PBA). He was 48 yrs old at...

On January 8th, 2023, I was involved in an accident. Shielded by the car to my right as we turned left at an intersection after receiving the green arrow, I...

After most of 2020 dealing with nuisance symptoms like urgency and producing small foreign objects when I, then a major symptom; About 12 times a day I was having what...

Starting in early October of 2022 I had a bout of hematuria which mostly presented itself as blood clots in my urine and orange pee at the end of my...

In Jan 2017, I turned 68. In 68 years, I was pretty healthy, with 4 operations in all those years (3 after age 65), nothing out of the ordinary. In...

I slipped on the ice (Christmas Eve) and fell hard. Within the hour, I noticed blood in my urine. The blood was present for 2 days. I went to the...

I am calling today my new birth date because on this day last year (2022) I was “snatched from the jaws of death”. I went to the emergency room complaining...

Bladder Cancer... When did it start? I am 63 and started smoking at age 17. It was about March 2021 that I experience some blood in my urine, but it...

My bladder cancer journey started five years ago. I'm an avid bicyclist riding my Trek road bike 40 miles a week. After a strenuous 30-mile ride, I had blood in...

I lost my husband of 34 years on October 31st of this year, just over 2 years after him receiving a cancer diagnosis on September 29th, 2020. Our world was...

July 1st: Seeing very dark urine one morning and went to the doctor's office to have it checked. They said they saw microscopic blood in the sample I gave at...

This is "327" again. My name is Tom. "Unexpected/Unwelcome Surprise" is my first entry to this forum. Following my first surgery in January 2022, and 6-week BCG treatment, I had...

I am a 71-year-old male and very active and typically in great shape. 6 Years ago, I woke up with severe pain in my back. I went to ER and...

I’m 11 months after bladder and prostate removal. As of today, I have no sex life. It’s very simple- active before- now inactive. In a strange way, I think it’s...

I have a 90-year-old friend that said she heard animals in her crawl space. She asked me to investigate, and reluctantly, I went down there and looked. The space was...

Wow. This has happened so quickly. I'm a 67-year-old male, soon to be 68, healthy as a horse, a horse with arthritis. In July my local urologist detected blood in...

I am on my third chemo, just to get rid of any lingering cells if any. I have Bladder cancer 60yrs young. The only thing I find is not getting...

Hello, I had my bladder, uterus/tubes, ovaries, and bladder diversion made back in 2019. I was diagnosed with high-grade muscle invasion of cancer. I was told it had not spread...