Hughes titled this poem âHarlemâ after the New York neighborhood that became the center of the Harlem Renaissance, a major creative explosion in music, literature, and art that occurred during the 1910s and 1920s.
An incision is made into the abdomen to access the bladder and lift it off the urethra. A catheter is placed into the bladder through the urethra to aid urine drainage; it is usually removed within 10 days. Patients can return home after 2-3 days of hospitalization, with 2-4 weeks of recovery period.
After removing the prostate, the surgeon reconnects the bladder to the urethra, and the Foley catheter put in place at the start of surgery is left in place for approximately one week (rarely longer due to possibility of infection). Once the catheter is removed, most men leak urine for a period of time. The leakage occurs mainly due to stress incontinence - failure of the urethral sphincter to close properly (Ficazzola 1998). The sphincter can be thought of like a valve or aperture of a camera; it lies just beyond the prostate.