Cancer
Cancer sucks. I was recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, which if you're gonna get cancer is apparently the one to get, since it has like a 90% survival rate. Mine was caught early (incredibly early in some ways, as I am only in my 40s), and I just went for the removal, kinda like a woman with the breast cancer gene getting a preemptive mastectomy. Of course, the side effects of prostate removal are a tad more annoying tha the side effects of breast removal (I assume, anyways). A catheter for a week. That sucked, but mainly because trying to take a dump with a catheter in is a tremendous hassle. It pulls in weird directions and hurt in very unhappy places. Not to mention the fungal infection I got on the inside of my thigh from the chafing... Then the catheter came out and the real fun begins. I was warned to bring an "adult undergarment" (hereafter more simply referred to as "a diaper") because upon removal of the catheter, I WOULD not have bladder contr...