Good luck Jay. As a suggestion, you might want to pay attention to your daily diet. I have stayed away from anything that has sugar completely. No dairy products and much less acidic foods. Cancer feeds on sugar and hates oxygen and alkaline body.
Hi there Ustabee.
In response to your question. Initially I followed the guidelines that were given me and in one of my sessions I was in discussion with one of the nurses that was administering the BCG. She suggested making the lack of having water a little a longer and I decided I would make it much longer for experimental purposes. It occurred to me that one's body is going to seek out the whole body for liquids to output and that can come from food and any residual liquid. The reason for not having too much food the day before is that the bowels become full and lean against the bladder. So a full bowel along with liquid trying to occupy some of the bladder and to include the BCG, how on Earth is one's bladder going to hold the treatment for 2 hours. The bladder is not exactly a Zepplin! Not having food or water for 24/36 hours is not going to kill anyone. As a society we are too programmed that we must consume at every 4-6 hour interval. There are people out in the world who go on these fasts of no water or no food for a much longer duration of time and whose health is far greater than those feeding their faces (so-to-speak).
Each person really needs to understand how their body functions and I notice will follow to the "T" what doctors will tell them. The problem is doctors just like every "technician" will diagnose, but does not always know the full function of any one body. Sometimes they are so "texted booked" and that is why I think it is important for people to really educate themselves as best they can about their own body and what they are experiencing. Not that they should self-diagnose themselves and become a doctor. We live (even more so) in a global market where information is at our finger tips. We are able to find papers, test trials, break throughs and the like by researchers from other countries that can give us some insight about our own illnesses. As human beings there is nothing that is unique from one to another...at the end of the day it is bones, flesh and fluids that are contained in a cover called skin that makes up our anatomy. Oh, and some electrical current so we can get charged!
I am in touch with a few other people who have survived some 10+ years Stage IV bladder cancer and they have been providing me information as well. Read, educate oneself and make appropriate decisions.