Man, that sucks! I wish the best for you.
I'm 40 now and i must say, I have been feeling the creeks and pains for a few years now. Every time i try to do things that i did 20 years ago i realize that time has passed.
A year ago i had a prostate biopsy because some blood work showed some elevations in whatever can cause prostate cancer. It was all well. From the time of the test until i received the results which took about two weeks, in my mind, I was facing death. You start think different.
My motto has always been, you gotta live life. We all know time is short. Do what makes you smile and you wake up and smile every day.
Make sure it's a surgeon that does 200 of them a year and not 10.