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In July this year I went in for a routine physical, including a blood work up. My doctor, Dr. Temple Day is just the greatest, I just love her. She made me just through all the hoops and prod and probes and told me that my prostate seemed enlarged and could explain some of my issues with nightime bathroom interruptions for the past 2 years. It is a condition called BPH (benign prostate hyperplasia). Without alarm, she said the blood work and PSA (prostate specific antigen) results would tell us if there is any other issues that need to be addressed. One week later, we got the results of the blood work and my PSA counts had risen from 1.1 the year before to 3.3 now. As a precautionary measure, she suggested it could be a low grade infection and decided to put me on anti-biotic for 3 weeks and then we'd re-test. A month later we did re-test and the PSA count had increased another point. A referral was made to a urologist.

A couple of weeks later I met Dr Stewart Polski for the first time in Huntersville. What a nice guy. He told me all the "stuff" about the prostate, how it works and why it may not work as well sometimes. His recommendation to me was a biopsy. This would tell us if there was cancer in my prostate. He explained how this procedure worked and we made an appointment. I searched on the internet for all and any information I could find and learned that what he had already told me was pretty much what was written on here. We were "on" and I was schedule for my first steps in what has become quite a journey.