Thread: My battle with prostate cancer continues.

Thanks Bob.


Peter.

Good to hear minimal side effects Sturdee. Hope all goes well with the other treatments.

I'm right behind you Sturdee, both in support and my own prostate cancer battle. My last PSA showed I have gone down to 0.03 and after reading yours, I will be anxious to know what the next count will bring. Your next treatment can actually be a bit more thorough than the operation was, albeit, we both know the operation needs to be the first way to go.

Keep positive Peter.

All the best Sturdee, dai sensai and Buzza.

Had my first treatment today.

After making sure that I'm in the correct position on the machine the staff leave and the machine whirls into position, beeps an alarm and radiates me for a short time. It then moves to another angle and gives me another dose. It does this about 7 times and all I do is lay quietly and think of England.

The staff then come back and takes a few readings and it's done for the day. This will go on for 34 more consecutively days with saturdays and sundays excluded.

Not painful and no effects but as time goes on this may become different.


Peter.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

Not painful and no effects but as time goes on this may become different.

Let's hope boredom is the only side effect you have

I note from the late news they are using high frequency sound waves in England so far treated 18 people no ill effects.

Seen your post Peter, best wishes and England is a good thing to think of. ( )

Well it's been a week now, had 6 daily doses of the 35 that I will have. No major effects so far except that some days I'm more tired then ususal other days I feel great. If it continues this way I'll be very happy.

The only downside to this treatment is that my bowels must be empty and my bladder full prior to treatments so that the radiation can be aimed at the areas needed. This means I have to drink 3 glasses of water about 30 minutes before and I'm starting to loathe drinking water.

And it takes about 2 1/2 hours out of my day (most of the time early in the morning) but that is an inconvenience that I'm happy to have in order to get better.


Peter.

Hang in there and Good luck with it Peter, our thoughts are with you

Good to hear the process is not too bad Peter. I hope it stays that way for you.

I'm now 1/3 through the treatment. I feel well although I get tired very quickly.

Everything seems to take much longer and it is hard to get motivated to do very much. So I have placed myself on restricted duties and will leave the workshop alone unless something essential crops up. Rather leave things than have an accident because of being tired or cut corners in a hurry to finish something.

So now I have started on a long delayed project to convert my LP record collection to MP3 files and put it on my MP4 player, as well as doing jigsaw puzzles and watching movies and reading some good books. So I will still have my hands full and not get bored.

At least this time I prepared for this enforced workshop absence.

Peter.

Good to hear that things are progressing as good as can be expected Peter. At least you are getting time to do some of those things that were on the back burner. I have plenty of those and most probably will never get to do them. All the best with the remainder of your treatment.

I find that it is now hard to motivate myself as well Peter, although, at this stage my recovery is is going well for now, with no further treatment needed. I have things to do, but easily allow the wet weather and cold temperatures keep me indoors. The scroll saw sits abandoned on the back verandah for now. Sitting is one of the worst things we can do it is said, we must keep on our feet, so scrolling is out. PC work should be limited as well. We do have another thing in common Peter, I have a huge pile of "Collectible Records" to record as MP3's, but as yet, I do not have a good recording device, and the PC is one room, whilst the old stereo with dub out facility is in another. It would be a good idea to re-arrange those two rooms, if only for winter.

Keep positive Peter, we're in this together Mate.