Thread: My battle with prostate cancer continues.

Peter,

Good luck for tomorrow. No doubt we'll hear from you.

Pleased to hear from you Peter. Hoping to see you posting some more jig suggestions in the near future.

Hi Peter,
good luck tomorrow,
must be a relief getting to the end of your treatment.
Here's hoping the recovery from it will be speedy, and all goes well.

Cheers, Ironwood.

G'Day Peter

Good Luck, thanks for update

Cheers
Bernie

Really sorry to hear that Peter.Best of luck.

Great that the DRT is nearly finished. The side effects will wear off pretty soon and hopefully you will be back to getting on with life.

Last tuesday, after waking up early again and on the way to the hospital, the lyrics of the chorus of an old Rolling Stones hit kept playing in my head.

Not surprisingly it was : "Well this could be the last time, This could be the last time, Maybe the last time', I dont know. oh no. oh no "

Haven't thought of that song for years but somehow that came into my head and put a spring in my step and a happy disposition in me.

The final treatment was later than normal and thus I had a chamce to say goodbye to a lot of the guys and girls that looked after me, day in day out. Pleased to have made it and that it's no longer necessary.

Peter.

Although the radiation treatment is finished I'm still having the hormonal therapy and Wednesday I had my second review by the Men's Health Clinic.

This clinic supervises me and monitors if there are any side effects from the this treatment and enables corrective action to be taken if necessary. After preventative medicine is better than trying to fix something afterwards.

As part of this recently I had extensive blood and urine teast ( 20 different tests) and a bone density scan. Everything is good and will be used as a basis for future tests.

Best of all the first psa test (included in above) since I started the treatment was below 0.01. The best I have ever had, although I was warned not to get too excited with the initial tests as it was done whilst my insides are all mixed up and only a regular series of test will give definitive results.

Nevertheless the treatment so far must have given my cancer a good knock out and this round may be in my favour.

I'm happy that all my efforts seem to be paying of and I'm much more optimistic at the eventual outcome.

Peter.

So today is the first weekday in seven weeks that I didn't have to get up at the crack of dawn or earlier and I could sleep in.

Unfortunately I got used to waking up sdo again I woke up at 6.00 am but this time I went back to sleep. Felt really great to get up at 8.00 am instead.

BTW I spent half an hour working in the garden this morning tidying up a few things, so things are improving.


Peter.

Good to hear things are looking so good Peter.

It's good to be able to appreciate some of the little things in life again.

Good onya Stubborn Bugger. A sleepin is a luxury isn't it.

Good to hear that everything is going in the right direction. I had surgery for bowel cancer 3 years ago. I didn't need chemo or radio treatment but I think that when you have seen the word 'malignant' on a pathology report you feel link to anyone else who has cancer.
I hope everything keeps improving and best wishes for the future.

Hope things stay good Peter

It's been a 10 days without treatment and, whilst I still get very tired and at times feel as crook as a dog, I know that my body is recovering.

Yesterday I felt well enough to do half an hour of gardening and today I spent about one and a half hours gardening. Only light pruning and weeding but it's a start.

Plan to do more each day whilst building up my strenght. Won't go in the workshop as yet for I won't use power tools until I'm really fit and able to fully concentrate. Too dangerous otherwise.

But I feel that there really is light at the end of the tunnel.


Peter.