Thread: My battle with prostate cancer continues.

Originally Posted by artme

If you PM your address I will send you a couple pf titles.

Cheers mate.

Thanks and done.


Peter.

Originally Posted by The Bleeder

Hey Stubborn Bugger,

Rome wasn't built in a day. Slow down cause you're embarrasing us young ones.

We need people like you to be around for some time to come.

Good to here your getting back into things, just take it easy.

Thanks mate, I know that Rome wasn't built in one day but remember time waits for no man.

Today is the hump day of my treatment regime. I've had 18 sessions of radiation and only have 17 to go before it's finished.

Feel much more lethargic than before but I think a big part is the heavy cold (and associated cough ) that I managed to pick up. So definitely no workshop time for a while as my main priority is to conserve my strenght and get better. Thus I no longer feel guilty about not doing much anymore, in fact I'm starting to get used to the enforced relaxation.

Still have to get up at an ungodly hour, for a retired person like me, and get to the hospital to get ready for the radiation sessions, but being in the morning I have still have plenty energy at that stage and usually get home in time for a morning coffee.

Peter.

Peter, I am impressed that after all the crap you finish with a positive note (the morning coffee) - it sets a great example and if I ever find myself in such a situation I'd be very happy to have your outlook. Onya mate

I could not live without my morning coffee, it is the ONLY thing that keeps me alive.

Its the first time i have looked at this section, as a relatively new member with a mere handful of posts , and very little experiance within a forum . it is so good to see the support of other members , it seems you can contribute in so many ways .

Wish you well
Paul , k

The Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia recently advised that the medical profession is now officially recogonising that a positive attitude really helps in fighting any disease even cancer. A research professor at the Qld Uni told me that patients who remain active do best in his trials. So the trick is to remain active and positive about the outcome of your treatment and you can become a survivor. You seem to be doing this Peter so keep it up and you can continue to contribute to this forum for many years to come.

John

Keep it up Sturdee.

Originally Posted by Sturdee

Thus I no longer feel guilty about not doing much anymore, in fact I'm starting to get used to the enforced relaxation.

Peter.

Why did you think your guilty of not doing much? With what you have been through and are now going through a lot of others should have more guilt that you.

Have that enforced relaxation, the body needs it. The mind is another thing. Good to see you are keeping it active.

Hear from you soon.

Originally Posted by The Bleeder

Why did you think your guilty of not doing much?

Mainly my upbringing which frowned on lazyness and installed into me my work ethics, especially as my parents had it tough all their lives raising a large family through the great depression, WW2's nazi occupation and then migrating here to give their children a better future.


Peter.

Peter,

My father and my grandfather instilled those types of values in me (I worked for my granddad as he was a builder). But with what you have been through and are still going through I think you should not feel guilty. Just keeping the mind going preparing all those jobs for when the body is ready will suffice.

Remember don't undo all the hard work (and frustration) that has got you to this point.


Sit down and enjoy that cuppa.....and enjoy those that are around you.

At last I'm on the home stretch. Only 9 more treatments to go and at this stage I'm continually tired and don't have much energy to do anything physical.

Because of the weakened state of my body minor problems, that apparently I never knew I had, are becoming issues that now annoy me. Last week I found out that I had hemaroids that because of the radiation were becoming rather painful and I was prescribed to use some steroid cream which alleviated it.

Yesterday and today I've been getting a few nose bleeds so I'll see the staff about it tomorrow, it may be because of my blood pressure and cough but best to check it out in case it was aggravated by the treatment.

But I'm still happily doing jigsaw puzzles, just finished my fourth one, and converting my records to MP3 formats so I'm not bored during this time and the visists to the hospital are all early in the morning whilst I'm still feeling refreshed, so driving at that stage is not a problem.

But I'll be glad when this is over and my continual tiredness goes away.

Peter.

Peter,

As you said, your on the home stretch. Now, what are you looking forward to the most...besides the obvious.

Goodonyah Peter. Keep up the recording activity, you will be popular with lots of people who want to hear your collection.

You may know or you may not, but there is a fairly simple way to handle the old Hems. I had it done twice here in Adelaide, by a surgeon, and now they never bother me. He put an elstic band around them, and after 48 hours, the slight throbbing stopped, and they were gone. No bleeding, and no pain ( or trauma) just a bit of a throb. Perhaps you can find someone professional to talk to about this method.

Lazy Itis set in here toady, as it rained fairly steadily, keeping me indoors and away from the garden and "Clean Up Campaign".

Originally Posted by The Bleeder

Peter,

As you said, your on the home stretch. Now, what are you looking forward to the most...besides the obvious.

One of the first projects I'll do when I get back in the workshop is to mount and frame the jigsaw puzzles that I've been doing as a permanent reminder of what I've been going through, plenty of room in the back stairwell to hang them. BTW my daughter has also got the bug so at night we often sit opposite each other at the dining table doing puzzles.

Originally Posted by Buzza

Goodonyah Peter. Keep up the recording activity, you will be popular with lots of people who want to hear your collection.

Yes it's great to hear the old records again, when I'm back in the workshop I can plug the little player into my sound system and listen to them instead of the banal radio programs that are on during the day.

Originally Posted by Buzza

You may know or you may not, but there is a fairly simple way to handle the old Hems.

I'll keep it in mind but that will have to wait untill after my treatment.

Checked with the staff about my nose bleeds. It's not as a result of the treatment but my weakend body strenght has contributed to it. Again have to monitor it and wait and see if it goes away when my sniffles go away.

Tomorrow is my only very, very early start (7.00am treatment) so I'll skip breakfast and afterwards will have the fasting pathology tests that my doctor at the Men's health clinic ordered for my next appointment, so the early start is not too bad.

Peter.