Let’s just hope he isn’t as clogged as you are Clogboy!
Sorry, channeling Bart Simpson is neither fun nor easy.
Nothing but best wishes for you and your father, Coldfire.
Thanks guys! 
Lots of good wishes and healing thoughts to Clogdad. And a few to the Clogster himself, waiting for medical news about your family is a tough gig. Hang in there, friend Coldie.
Best wishes to you and your family, and hoping all goes well for the op.
Good luck, best wishes and a big hug for the coldfire family.
So, my dad went in for his first radiation treatment today. He was cool about it, after all, it beats chemo, right? Just his luck: the radiation machine malfunctioned when they were treating him, and now he has to come back tomorrow, for his real first of 35 treatments.
Fingers crossed. And let’s hope he doesn’t break the machine again.
Best wishes to you and your papa.
Warm thoughts and vibes headed your way, ColdieClogs.
Good thoughts and vibes headed to you and yours!
Let’s make one thing perfectly clear here Clodie Clogs. The sheer configuration of your father’s relative scan area obviously intimidated the machine beyond its ability to function. If genetic inheritance played any sort of significant role in this mechanical malfunction, you should be rather happy with the X-ray zapper’s (temporary) breakdown.
Other than that, you have only my best and most heartfelt wishes for your Dad’s speedy recovery.
Hope all goes well with your dad, ClogBoy.
Good luck; radiation sucks, but it sure beats the alternative!
If it’s any comfort, my dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer about 10 years ago now. Yay for PSA tests! They caught it very early. He had surgery, and although the followup wasn’t exactly fun, he’s been fine ever since. Well, at least he hasn’t complained about it or required anything beyond occasional PSA tests; I really don’t want to deal with the concept of asking Dad how well his plumbing is functioning . Just too weird.
The period where he was trying to decide what to do was very stressful for everyone; he was flying all over the goddamned Eastern Seaboard seeing specialists. One night I was talking to him on the phone, asking what his plan was. He said he couldn’t manage to decide, because he was getting so much conflicting information, because he knew he’d have to make up his mind eventually and deal with the consequences.
He told me, “the whole thing is really hanging over me.”
“Actually, Dad,” I replied, “I think it’s hanging under you.”
(Hope that at least made someone crack a grin. Dad appreciated it, anyway.)
Gallows humour runs rampant in my family, Eva. No problem with that kind of joke whatsoever!
My mother once told her sister (both of them were a bit overweight at the time, and they were “competing” for the best weight) that having a breast amputated isn’t exactly fair play when you’re trying to lose weight, upon entering the hospital room the night after my aunt’s surgery. Talk about a surreal scene: around Bed #1, there’s our family, all cracking up, and around Beds #2 through #4 there’s three other families looking at us wide-eyed, surely thinking we’re the Spawn of Satan himself.
Well, perhaps we are, I don’t know. Anyways, thanks for all the good wishes, guys.
{{{{Coldfire and Clogdad and family}}}}
Hope everything works out well.
Coldfire…Healing thoughts and prayers for your dad and entire family!
… and the tests are looking moderately positive. That is, the PSA value is dropping slowly. This is a good indicator: it doesn’t drop dramatically straightaway, as the cells that have been nuked have to die off naturally (the radiation renders them incapable of splitting). This takes between a fews days and a few months - they can be more or less sure it worked in about 2 years from now. But until then, they will of course monitor the PSA value periodically, and if all is well, it will keep on dropping steadily.
My father didn’t suffer a lot of side effects from the treatments: apart from a temporarily iffy bladder control (which has since returned to normal, happily), he was mostly very tired, and had to take naps during the day. As he’s retired now, that’s not much of a problem! His strength is returning though, and he’s started playing tennis again. Perhaps in a few weeks, he’ll hook up the new caravan he bought a few months ago, and go for a camping trip with my mom.
All in all, it’s looking good.
That’s great to hear Coldie, went through that with my dad and it’s sure was a worry. Hope the PSA keeps dropping.
**Coldfire ** From a newbie; Good to hear your dad is doing better. He’s playing tennis again? Wow.
Groeten en wens hem het allerbeste.
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