Well there, there are problems, the nerve sparing, the nerve sparing worked, but quite obviously, I have to be, I have to be fairly open about this, you no longer ejaculate, which may or may not be an issue of itself, but I do not, while I can get an erection, I, it is non-orgasmic, that has bothered me, it has bothered me, mainly because, for about, well once I was able, for a short period after I was able, post-op, it was orgasmic, but only for a short period. Now they don’t talk to you too much about that, even when you ask in the hospital, so, my interpretation, and it’s my interpretation, it’s not a medical interpretation, is that something survived the operation, which died shortly afterwards, and I’ve only recently, I’ve only recently discovered, talking to one of the, not the doctor, but one of the support nurses, I couldn’t tell you her title, who gave me a bit of a surprise whenever she said that the nerves which control orgasm and the nerves which control erection, are a different set of nerves, now, I have not gone into that, because all of a sudden it says, well, are they separate, were they treated separately, I didn’t want to go there, because at the end of the day, there’s nothing going to be able to be done about it, the doctor did his best in the operation, and if a set of nerves died as a consequence, that was a risk you were running, that was the risk, and you knew that risk, it wasn’t as if you weren’t told, you knew and that was part of your decision.

There’s not much else I can say about the operation itself, per se or the follow up except that I had a little bit of difficulty in the outcome, in that the doctor came round one day and as it happened I was lying on the bed, with the blanket over me, he was quite startled by the fact that within days of the operation I was wandering around the hospital, albeit quite painfully, but I couldn’t sit still, didn’t want to sit still, couldn’t lie on a bed, didn’t want to sit on a chair, I was happy enough just wandering, but this particular day, I was, I had a blanket over me, which he didn’t actually react to initially, until a nurse went past and I said, Nurse can I have that extra blanket please, I’m freezing, he reacted immediately, and it turned out I had MRSA, so I did, so, we had a few problems clearing that up as well. I hadn’t a particularly virulent form, it just made it a little bit more difficult for things to clear up per se. Recovery, no particular problems with the recovery and the usual problems that you have post-operative, incontinence and all the rest of it, all cleared up as quickly as can be expected.