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Thank you for those kind remarks. The whole thing is kind of surreal to me because I believe it all stemmed from the prostate cancer that I had back in 07 with a PSA. I think it’s either 10 or 12 something like that and I had it radiated at one of the best hospitals here in the area with proton therapy. I can’t remember how many Sessions I did but the permanent marker that was used for aiming the radiation is still on my scrotum or wherever it is for the prostate. However, the PSA never went down below two which is really weird because my brother had the same thing done in his location and his PSA went down to zero and he does not have any problems with his bladder or anything like it. The worst part is the encroachment of the loss of vision in my left eye which is now about 40% and I hope it doesn’t get any worse because nobody can handle it. Nobody does anything about it and as far as I know nobody in the world is even working with the optic nerve, even with the new stuff that they’ve developed regarding Growing this and knew that with stem cells. That would be interesting to see if it would work but there’s nobody to call to find out. Regardless, I’m still alive but the main thing is I’m 86 years old and even though my brain is still very intact, my Short term memory is not the greatest but my long-term memory is fully intact which is really weird to me but that’s the way it is. I’m a five time cancer survivor starting with colon cancer and then a couple lesions on the outside of my left lung and then prostate cancer and then skin cancer and now bladder cancer , the ladder of which is probably gonna kill me because I really don’t think I’m going to try and do the cystectomy mainly because of the amount of downtime the length of the surgery the length of the hospital stay and the approximate 10 days and rehab while they help me learn how to walk again and all that kind of stuff. at my age, probably letting nature take its course is probably the best idea. Regardless, have a happy Christmas. Have a happy new year and I wish you the best and thank you very much for your comments again.