The overnight in the hospital was ok, the catheter bugged me the most and kept me awake all night. But that came out (hate those things) Saturday morning and I was home by noon.
I did have a drainage tube buried deep in my groin, but at today's follow up, the surgeon felt the drainage was tapering off enough to remove it. I have to say it hurt just as much as the catheter did being pulled out!
I asked the surgeon if he had ever had or heard of anyone having issues half a decade after implant... I appear to be special because he hadn't. The tissue around the reservoir was irritated and inflamed, causing a fair amount of pain, that it drove me to this point.
We agreed that to reduce the possibility (since I seem to be prone to it) of scarring, to just leave the pump and tubing in place. It's weird being able to feel the pump and tubes in my shaft and knowing they no longer work/get hard.
I'm not sure what to do in the future. I want one of the hotshot, high volume docs to do the next implant cause I have "visions of an even longer and thicker erection" than before. But logic kinda says, stick with a well-respected university hospital (UC San Francisco) and it's urology team because I seem to be apart of a very limited demographic now and should play it safe. I should have a night in a hospital on antibiotics and a nurse checking up every few hours and enjoy easy follows because the hospital is only 10 minutes away. But past experience leads to find university docs to be rather conservative in their sizing. And no one wants to be short-changed in that department!
So its now just a waiting game, one where I have to get my head around being impotent again. Thankfully the husband likes to top more than bottom, but still... none of us are on this site because we're thrilled with a limp cock!
