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11 anniversaries since diagnosis of stage 4 prostate cancer
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Lordy your doing well with a stage 4 diagnosis . Your on hormone therapy ....BUT still, outstanding progress . Remember , research is changing things so quick that they probably have a replacement for hormone therapy soon ! I had operation March 31, 2021 . My PSA did not go to zero , it hung around 0.14 and a slight rise . About a year ago I got 22 sessions of radiation with no chemicals or ADT . Now my PSA is sliding . from 0.14 , it went to 0.072 after about 5 months , and now is at 0.056 . this is after a year . It takes this long for radiation to work ? My next test for PSA is in 2.5 weeks . Im starting to loose sleep over it . I get up and walk around the house with the dogs at 3 am . My stress around PSA is bad . My father passed away with PC about 26 years ago - I know the world has changed since then . I was his care giver . He suffered in silence . I closed his eyes and drew the sheets over his head upon his death 26 years ago at his age of 67 . That stuck with me . I have good care here , but I am haunted by my past caring for my father . Any ideas ? James on Vancouver Island .
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My father died of colon cancer 14 years ago. He waited too long, and then didn't want to fight it, so he spent most of the last year of his life just lying in a hospital bed.
I promised my kids that if it ever happened to me, I'd fight. I didn't think I'd have to keep the promise so soon, but I did.
There's a saying in aviation that you have to keep flying the plane until every piece of it stops moving. I apply that to life as well. This isn't our fathers' cancer, and we have a lot more tools to keep living *almost* normal lives.