Men (and women) need to beware. Bladder cancer does not give many symptoms before it's progressed to a serious state. If you have absolutely NO pain or discomfort at all, but see a tiny drop of blood in your urine EVEN ONE TIME (or one unusual time, for women), it would be prudent to get it checked out. Here's what happened to me...
I reside in Northern Utah, near Snowbasin Ski Resort, about 40 minutes north of Salt Lake City. My employer is a major aerospace corporation, and my job as a process engineer (efficiency "expert") requires frequent travel to wherever problems may be. On this Sunday evening I traveled to Tucson, Arizona - my first visit to this city. I was slated to meet with a large group from several companies to discuss the state of things on their missile program.
I stayed at the local Doubletree Hotel, which looked to have been a pretty nice place in the early 1980s, but had seen better days.
The staff were having a "score 10 out of 10" promotion, so everyone was friendly and greeted me, which was nice. After a dinner in the room (a "Double Double" In-N-Out Burger & a Beck's beer), I used the toilet. After finishing urination, I noticed a pink color in the front of the toilet. "That seems odd," I thought, then shrugged it off as weirdness from an older hotel.
The next morning I noticed it again, and determined it was not a stain in the porcelain, but something that came from me, at the end of the urine stream. Blood in the urine. I later learned that the technical term for this is terminal (end of stream) hematuria (blood in urine).
Like most American males my age, I was in average health, not eating the best foods (like dinner the previous night) or exercising enough, and a bit overweight...
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Men (and women) need to beware. Bladder cancer does not give many symptoms before it's progressed to a serious state. If you have absolutely NO pain or discomfort at all, but see a tiny drop of blood in your urine EVEN ONE TIME (or one unusual time, for women), it would be prudent to get it checked out. Here's what happened to me...
I reside in Northern Utah, near Snowbasin Ski Resort, about 40 minutes north of Salt Lake City. My employer is a major aerospace corporation, and my job as a process engineer (efficiency "expert") requires frequent travel to wherever problems may be. On this Sunday evening I traveled to Tucson, Arizona - my first visit to this city. I was slated to meet with a large group from several companies to discuss the state of things on their missile program.
I stayed at the local Doubletree Hotel, which looked to have been a pretty nice place in the early 1980s, but had seen better days.
The staff were having a "score 10 out of 10" promotion, so everyone was friendly and greeted me, which was nice. After a dinner in the room (a "Double Double" In-N-Out Burger & a Beck's beer), I used the toilet. After finishing urination, I noticed a pink color in the front of the toilet. "That seems odd," I thought, then shrugged it off as weirdness from an older hotel.
The next morning I noticed it again, and determined it was not a stain in the porcelain, but something that came from me, at the end of the urine stream. Blood in the urine. I later learned that the technical term for this is terminal (end of stream) hematuria (blood in urine).
Like most American males my age, I was in average health, not eating the best foods (like dinner the previous night) or exercising enough, and a bit overweight...
CLICK HERE to read the full post on my blog: http://gotbladdercancer.blogspot.com