Yeah. Whatever you do or don’t do and whatever eventually does or doesn’t happen, you won’t be able to say for sure how good that decision was in terms of results. You can certainly say at least a few tbings about how carefully considered it was.
My comment on cancer in general:
Every case is an experiment with an n of 1 and no control group.
It’s a shame that’s true, but it applies to a lot of life. Understanding up front that certainty simply isn’t available is part of a successful psychological adaptation.
3 appointments set up in August. Including the spacer. I think the step after that is the trip to NYC to get the special MRI up in NYC for designing the treatment. About 2 weeks later can begin treatment local.
Tomorrow is minor surgery to get a spacer put in. This is in prep for the radiation treatments. Apparently the spacer stays in for life. I won’t be able to drive myself home, so my wife is taking me.
I’m glad to see you’re moving with alacrity, and that everyone’s being realistic and careful about what to do/not to do. I’m thinking of my FiL who tried to drive himself to the hospital with a broken hand a few years back
If you haven’t left already, do make sure to lay in some tasty comfort foods to spoil yourself with!
No, the body absorbs the gel over time (generally after 3 months from insertion) and it’s excreted through the kidneys and out in the urine. I found that process completely unnoticeable.
It seems like everything went well as expected.
No counting down from 10 for the anesthesia.
I have some discomfort in the groin region of course.
On more hurdle next Friday before I’m ready for the 5 sessions of radiation to hopefully cure the cancer.
Sub-pet peeve: I dislike the terminology of “curing the cancer”. We’re trying to kill or otherwise disable the cancerous cells - they’re a part of you like the rest. Curing implies a separate origin, rather than a failure of our own cellular mechanism (not that some cancers DON’T have a separate initiating factor) - but new and/or different cancers can always arise.
Again, I’m certain YOU know all that, but the terminology always worries me, because if something is “cured” it’s not something to worry about in the future to far too many people who don’t research such things, or don’t listen to the doctors.
Anyway, more for anyone reading along or blowing in briefly from the wilds of the web, a PSA as it were.
Rest, take appropriate measures for the pain, and maybe eat an entire bowl of quality fresh-popped popcorn with your chosen accent flavor(s)!
no emoji specific to prostate treatment…)
