What's going on, guys, I just wanted to mention before you see this episode that I will be talking
about male anatomy, medical procedures, that sort of stuff, if this is not your cup of
tea, if you're a young child, if you are definitely not interested in hearing about this,
skip this episode.
OK, you've been warned.
All right, so I didn't think I would make a video about this, but
there are a few different reasons that I want to talk about what has happened in the
last 12, 24 hours.
For multiple reasons, to spread awareness.
I also have a lot of medical students who want to talk about more medical
topics. So, you know, consider this another English lesson that's also
about my life.
Yesterday whilst getting ready to go to bed.
I, as the title probably suggests, found a lump
downstairs. So I found a lump on my right testicle.
That was not there a week or so ago.
So needless to say, I was, you know,
instantly terrified.
The blood inside me ran cold.
I was like, oh, great.
It's going to be it's going to be testicular cancer.
What else could it be? It's testicular cancer.
I'm screwed. I'm going to get chemotherapy.
I'm going to die. You know, fatalising, fatalising, fatalising.
And so, yeah, I couldn't believe it.
This is the first sort of health scare that I think I've ever had.
So I immediately got on the Internet and started looking up what the possible
things could be other than just testicular cancer.
You know, and if it were testicular cancer, you know, what are the sort of signs to look for, what
to do next? The good thing was that there are plenty of reasons that you can find a
lump on one of your testicles as a young man.
So, yeah, I started looking up all of these symptoms and I was finding it incredibly hard
to get to sleep. Got to sleep in the morning.
I rang the doctor and asked for an emergency, an emergency appointment.
They granted me one. I came straight in and yeah, I met a doctor
who was younger than me, a young gentleman, you know, ended up having to get my kit off and lie
down and have him have an inspection.
And he ended up suggesting that it wasn't testicular cancer,
although I need to- I'm now about to get an ultrasound and that it is probably an
epididymal cyst, which is what I was hoping it would be, because they're
benign, they're not cancerous.
I may have to get surgery to have it removed if it continues to to grow,
if it if it is that.
But hopefully it will either stay as it is or disappear on
its own. Anyway, the main reason I wanted to get this out there was just to say, guys, get
yourselves checked, you know, get yourselves check, check yourselves.
This came up out of nowhere.
I checked myself on a regular basis, probably once every few weeks
and definitely didn't notice this last time.
Within a matter of a few short weeks, few, maybe a few days, I
suddenly have a pea sized lump in my right testicle.
So I still I don't know what it is.
It could be cancer. It could be anything else.
I'm about to get an ultrasound, so fingers crossed that it is only good news
and that this thing doesn't get elevated to a more serious kind of
treatment. But yeah, cause that's really it.
Just make sure you get yourself checked.
If you find something, talk to a doctor, you know, organise an appointment and
meet immediately as soon as you can.
Go and get checked. It's uncomfortable.
It's embarrassing to have another person fondling your testicles and examining you.
But ultimately, you know, it's it's the right thing to do for
your health, for your family, for everyone else.
So just get it done, right.
Check on a regular basis.
I'm sure you can find videos online about how to do so.
There are plenty of doctor videos, tutorials about what you should do, what the signs are,
everything like that and what to do next.
And also, I guess, you know, that even if it is- even if it does turn out to be testicular cancer,
which I was sort of researching a lot last night before I got some shuteye, the prognosis tends to
be pretty good, I think, if you get on it early.
Okay. So if you do find out, you know, that God forbid you end up with testicular
cancer, it's one of those cancers where if you get on it early, you
most likely be OK.
You might have to have one of your testicles removed, but better that than the alternative.
Anyway, I'm going to go get this ultrasound and have yet another person fondle my my
junk. And I'm hoping I'm hoping to get good news,
but I'll keep you guys updated.
Wish me luck. Here we go.
Man, guys, good news!
Turns out to be nothing, turns out to be just my anatomy.
Apparently I went in there and was sort of nervous.
I'm like, please have a male physician.
You know, it's not because I'm sexist.
It's just I feel uncomfortable having to put a woman through that sort of thing.
I know they're professional, but, you know, it's just one of those things you can imagine they can
do without. But I happen to have a lady who's probably about my mother's age.
Thank you so much.
She was very professional, absolutely lovely having a chat while getting the scan.
So I took my kit off.
I had to put on a white gown with my bum hanging out the back, lay down on the table,
and then, yeah, they applied the gel and then started just having a look
around. And it turns out that it's just normal anatomy.
She said, I can't see a cyst.
I can't see cancer, I can't see anything like that.
So you have a clean bill of health.
I'm still going to post this video.
It's still an important message.
If you find something you're worried about, go and see your doctor.
It could be nothing, which is the best case scenario, obviously.
You know, it's it couldn't have.
I was hoping it was going to be a cyst.
Right. But I didn't even think that it could be nothing.
Turned out to be nothing. You know, my doctor thought it was something.
He sent me here to to get this ultrasound, to get it looked at.
But, yeah, thankfully turned out to be nothing.
The reason I guess I wanted to sort of tell this story and hopefully my mum doesn't mind me sharing
a bit of her medical history.
My mum is a breast cancer survivor.
So she, I think now has been, you know, free of breast cancer for twelve
years, which is, you know, amazing.
Congrats, Mum. So happy for you.
But she found a lump.
Well, yeah, about twelve years ago when she was in the shower, I think.
And, you know, was worried about it, went and had it looked at.
And then when she went and had an ultrasound, they found out that the lump was actually just a
cyst. It was nothing.
But next to it, they found breast cancer.
This, this tiny, tiny cancerous cluster of cells that she would never
have noticed until it had gotten much larger.
So that's why, you know, you need to take this sort of stuff seriously.
If you're ever worried about your body, if you ever think something's changed.
If you ever, you know, find something like this that you're concerned about, go and
see your GP, your general practitioner, your doctor, and then follow their advice.
Best case scenario, like today, it turns out to be nothing.
I honestly did not expect that to happen, but I'm so thankful it feels like a huge weight off my
shoulders, like I have dodged a massive bullet, but it was definitely worth
doing anyway. Yeah, hopefully this wasn't an overshare, guys.
You know, I know a lot of people who would never want to talk about this kind of stuff, but I think
it's important. I'm not much of a shy person when it comes to sharing my life, as you guys know.
But this kind of message, I think, is very important for both women and men.
Go and get yourselves checked.
You know, check your breasts, check your genitals and just be on top of things for
your own sake. You're in health.
We all know someone who's probably died of breast cancer or prostate cancer or any of that sort of
stuff. It's not worth being embarrassed about.
Go and get it checked out at the first sign of of something that you're worried about or just your
regular interval checking it out.
Anyway, I'm going to go back home.
Oh, my God. I'm so glad.
I'm so glad that I turned out to be nothing.
Far out. Far out. I was totally expecting bad news.
Anyway, I should probably add, guys, last but not least, the sort of prices
of what happened with appointments today.
So I went to the doctor's and it wasn't bulk billed, so it was like seventy eight dollars.
I think I get half of that back through Medicare.
The ultrasound was- let me have a look here-
at two hundred and fifty nine dollars fifty and I
think I get ninety dollars back on that.
So I think all up it's going to cost me less than two hundred dollars for peace of mind.
Right. To know that I'm okay to- or at least you know, if I had not been
okay to at least know what was wrong and to have a better sense of what was wrong and go forward
with that. So, again, money is just money.
Get this stuff done and, you know, take care of your health.
Anyway, thanks for watching, guys, and I'll see you next time.