PROSTABLOG NZ: My last PSA test recently showed it continues to be undetectable, some 20 months after my surgery in March, 2009.
But I’m not getting cocky just yet (forgive the pun).
From what I’ve read about prostate cancer treatment, if the cancer bug has got out of the organ during/after a prostatectomy, there’s a good chance the first signs will come two years after the operation.
My two-year anniversary comes up in a couple of months – so wish me luck.
It’s interesting how long it takes to fully recover from the surgery’s effects.
My scar is virtually gone and I’ve felt fit for ages.
There’s no incontinence. I haven’t done the pelvic floor exercises for more than a year, but there’s never any problem with not being able to hold it in, even when I’m busting.
Not that I put myself in the busting mode if I can avoid it.
So, hey, no regrets and no real worries. I’m bloody lucky.
Well, there is one worry – the number of friends and people I know who have been diagnosed. Talk about an epidemic.
And I wonder if the NZ Parliamentary Health Select Committee will ever get round to reporting back on its prostate cancer inquiry…
I have just published a book about my experience with prostate cancer. Its title is: Oh Thank God I Have Prostate Cancer. It is available on kindle, or hard copy thru amazon or authorhouse.
but i also am in the process of creating what I hope will be an interactive blog and want to have links to other blogs and web sites such as yours. I would be happy to send you a copy of the book and wonder if you could list it as a resource on your site.
** i listed my blog url but it is not fully functional at this time.
My mom struggled with cancer for several years. My mom won the fight with breast cancer, but now is diagnozed with thyroid cancer…….God bless you.
If every man received a checkup once a year early detection and treatment would make life a lot simpler for patients. Hopefully awareness over time will curb more towards doing just that.
dear Jim,
I come back regularly to your blog, apart from the prostate question I just find it a positive article to read. I feel better afterwards, and for that, thank you! I recently had a biopsie, interesting experience! Negative result, with usual cautioning comments from the urologist. Best wishes and good luck to you and Mrs. T.