I am so glad to hear it's healed up.
That's discouraging regarding hifu, so it's just like here, no surgeon will tell anyone. Heck, AT&T doesn't tell us that Verizon offers more areas!
There are some doctors who do HIFU in Japan ( www.hifu-jp.org ), and unless you hear about it on your own, no doctor will tell you, that's why these forums are great.....however ~ lots of forums erase what people say about HIFU and we don't get email alerts to our posts.
Thanks for the update, much good luck going forward.
Forsunny, thanks for the info and encouragement. As you predicted, the hole seems to have mended itself as of yesterday.
As for HIFU, not a peep. They have some hospitals specifically for cancer in Tokyo. If I had gone to one of those, maybe. But I choose a middling sized hospital close to home, new, clean, and up-to-date for the most part, but I'm guessing they didn't have the equipment for HIFU and thus didn't mention it. Maybe I should have gone in more informed and asked about it, but I'm basically just too lazy for that.
Anyway, thanks again. You definitely put my mind at ease.
ML
Just wondering, being you are in Japan, did your doctor tell you about HIFU as a treatment? HIFU is accepted in Japan, but I wonder if doctors mention it, or if men just need to find out about it on their own. HIFU is high intensity focused ultrasound, it's in clinical trials in the USA and doctors are terrified about it being approved (loss of $$)