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Keeping prostates healthy and checking for problems

If you’ve a relative living with ‘prostate problems‘, you’ll know the pain and embarrassment they can cause. Here’s an explanation of what’s going on and why it’s important to get symptoms checked. What is a prostate? The prostate is a gland that sits underneath the bladder and surrounds the urethra, which is the tube that […]

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Thoughts on living with an enlarged prostate

Written by Kathy Lawrence Is your dad peeing often and little? Maybe painfully? It might not be cancer, but it might be an enlarged prostate. Here are some thoughts from our own experiences on what you can expect to happen once you’ve persuaded them to see a doctor. At the beginning of 2013 comedian Bill […]

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In, out, shake it all about

This week’s storyteller has chosen to be anonymous.AKA the endless saga of life with and without a catheter. An eurgh yuk ow sort of story. This is a story that began back in the days before I started paying attention. In those golden years when my parents could get in the car and drive themselves […]

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