Living with a Semi-Rigid Penile Prosthesis

By Sam Turner

An honest, informative, and entertaining journal about the process of living with a penile prosthesis. Sam Turner's approach to what some might consider a sensitive subject allows the reader to learn about this procedure without embarrassment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A Turning Point Publication
• Release date: Sep 2, 2015
• ISBN: 9781516339105

Sam Turner

Sam Turner, a retired art and writing teacher who served with the Arizona Education Association Innovative Teaching Techniques Cadre as a Trainer of Trainers in Facilitating, is a freelance writer. He's contributed to Arizona Highways and The Aviation and Business Journal. He teaches memoir writing, and he and his wife Phyllis have published This Might Help: A Three-Year Walk Through the Valley with the Compassionate Friends, a compilation of monthly columns published in the Tucson Chapter newsletter, Walking This Valley. Compassionate Friends offer guidance, comfort and hope for parents who have suffered the death of a child. Sam has been journaling for forty years and offers his most recent work, Living with the Semi-Rigid Penile Prosthesis, in hopes that, for those considering a procedure, this record might put them at ease.

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Living with the AMS

SEMI-RIGID PENILE PROSTHESIS

or

Going through the change with Oscar and the Twins

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Sam Turner

The Turning Point publication of

Living With the AMS Semi-Rigid Penile Prosthesis

or

Going through the change with Oscar and the Twins

Copyright 2012 Sam Turner

License Notes

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Disclaimer:  This is a work of opinion, a reflection on the author’s experience.  It is in no way intended to replace valid medical advice or the advice of medical professionals.

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Dedication

To those men who have been unable to find a support group to explore the prosthesis option. 

Living with a SEMI-RIGID PENILE PROSTHESIS

OR

Going through the change with Oscar and the Twins

(Some names have been changed for obvious reasons!)

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In April of 2007 I elected to have the De Vinci Robotic radical prostatectomy. I was told that I may become incontinent and unable to have an erection; that there would be a sharp decrease in my sexual activity. I flippantly responded that my wife and I had been there, done that, and had reached a higher level of Nirvana. Over the next three years I found that the doctor had been accurate. What I didn’t realize was I would have no directional control when I urinated. If I didn’t use my hand as a shield when sitting, I often sprayed between the lid and the stool onto my pants. Standing at a urinal was out of the question. No nerves; no erection; no control. My penis