It's probably a bladder infection

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 My dad went for some blood tests recently and they came back normal.  Then he had to repeat them and some came back not normal and those were for his prostate.  He'd had an episode where he had needed a pee in the house and not made it.  The doctor has pointed out it could just be a bladder infection that the blood tests wouldn't pick up on.  In fact, this appears to be fairly common.  He told me on Friday.  He started off with a quip about wanting his parents picture visible to him in death.  Then went on to say he'd been thinking about it since the doctor had mentioned it.

The doctor pointing out that it might just be a bladder infection doesn't phase me, neither does him preparing my dad for something worse.  My dad isn't an idiot and he knows what men his age can end up suffering from.  

I'm okay, I'm robust.  I always have been and have to be since my sister took a back seat running down south in the pandemic and not coming north since.  

I hope that the doctor is correct, that it's a bladder infection.  All symptoms actually point that way.  Even if it isn't and cancer has infiltrated his prostate, well, it's curable, often.  The end is not nigh and my dad and I have been bumped into thinking about the future just slightly differently.  

I will be right by his side if he has to fight the battle.  





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