Wow... A lot of history has transpired on that front!
The surgery was just fine and I was mobile pretty quickly afterwards, and pissed like a firehose. I did get an very drug resistant infection in the hospital and ended up on IV antibiotics for 6 weeks. Long story there but it was the dark side of the whole process.
But... my surgeon jokingly said the procedure (TURP) was "warranted for only 10 years" but 5 years later (this spring) I went through it all again. This time around I was able to interpret the signs of impending urinary retention better, and self-cathed for some months instead of wearing the bag. If you can do it, this is really much much much better. So I had TURP again this May, and, surprise, got another prostate infection while at the hospital. This one did not require IV antibiotics but I was on Keflex for a total of about 3 months to get rid of it.
And the pathology this time shows I have very early stage prostate cancer (which I did not have 5 years ago).