Patient Stories
When you are facing a health issue, especially a serious one, you may feel like you are alone. However, the physicians and staff at MIU are here to listen and offer compassionate care.
It is often helpful to read about other people’s experiences so that you feel confident in your care team. Here’s what some MIU patients have had to say.
Michael’s Solution for Incontinence After Prostate Cancer Surgery
Following surgery for prostate cancer in 2011, Michael experienced urine leakage. Unlike some men, it wasn’t improving. The available treatment options didn’t interest him. But more than a decade later, at age 78, Michael read about the EMSELLA Chair and [...]
Joe’s Enlarged Prostate Story
“At work I wore a path in the carpet from my desk to the bathroom!” Although Joe can laugh about it now, going to the bathroom up to 20 times a day while at work wasn’t funny. And waking five [...]
Gordy’s Partial Nephrectomy
Would you consider yourself “lucky” to find out you have cancer? Gordy did. Here’s his story: Gordy’s cardiologist wanted him to have a CT scan for an issue that had nothing to do with his kidneys. “By chance, the scan [...]
