A Pinhole Fix: Prostate Artery Embolization Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe prostate artery embolization, offered by interventional radiologists for the urinary symptoms of an enlarged prostate. What brought men to it was broken nights, urgency at work, being unable to pass water at all, and months with a catheter bag on the leg. They include taxi drivers in Toronto and Istanbul, a long-haul trucker in El Paso, a baker up at half past two, a commercial pilot facing his medical, a former coal miner, a barber of fifty-three years and a lawyer standing for hours in court, from Kampala to Copenhagen and Bogotá to Santa Fe. Many weighed it against surgery because of fears about anaesthetic, warfarin, diabetes, a tired heart and scarred lungs, or what they did not want to lose. Daughters who made the appointment and a wife watching from the other chair appear, along with bladder diaries, private bills and an eight-month waiting list. Results range widely: some slept through the night again, several improved only partly, one man's benefit faded after eighteen months, one procedure could not be finished when the wire would not go, and one man says it did not work for him. Others describe two hard days of pain, a bruise that frightened a wife, and blood in the bowl on day six.

Who it's for

For men with an enlarged prostate weighing their options, those with a first appointment coming up, and the wives, partners and grown children living alongside the broken nights.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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