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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / November 2006QOL question - based on your loved one's experienced
Many of you talked about QOL, so here's a question: after RT or RP, it is said that you'll hope or believe that you will have reasonablely good QOL for 10 years or so... For families that has reached or nears this milestone, has their loved one's QOL changed for the worse and if so how (bedridden, paralyzed, pain, chemotheraphy disabled,death, etc.)? I am not expecting responses on normal expected side effect like some incontinence or ED. As mentioned in my previous posts, the 2 years of my relatives sufferings scares me, especially how it affected their families. Thanks. > Many of you talked about QOL, so here's a question: after RT or RP, it > is said that you'll hope or believe that you will have reasonablely [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > years of my relatives sufferings scares me, especially how it affected > their families. Thanks. My father died of PCa. Radiation (cobalt) and chemo made him really sick and it seemed like he was going through one or the other a lot for several years. But, in between, he did okay and continued working until a week before his death. Personally, for me, it was a bad enough existence that I was sure that I would never go through chemo. However, I figure my death is going to be a little less horrendous and the time I'm having now, especially with my grandchildren, is certainly worth trying to ward it off for a couple of years -- and, especially now that chemo is so much improved. I don't like the sides of HT, but I'm having a good time.  SignaturePSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46 Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c RRP 12/15/2000 G7 (3+4), T3cN0M0 Neg margins PSA .1 .1 .1 .27 .37 .75 EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 (4 mo), 12/03, 4/04, 09/04, 01/05, 5/05, 10/05, 2/06, 6/06 PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA <0.04 Non Illegitimi Carborundum > he did okay and continued working until a week > before his death. I can't personally agree with that choice of end-game activities, but MAN do I admire his guts. That's a man to admire. I.P. >> he did okay and continued working until a week before his death. > > I can't personally agree with that choice of end-game activities, but MAN > do I admire his guts. That's a man to admire. You probably would have. USMC. Fought in Korea. Earned 3 purple heart awards (and sent home to avoid a 4th)and two rockers on his stripes in only 3 years and nominated for the Silver Star. The war ended and he went home, married, tried being a butcher (because my mom wanted him to) and became a cop (because he wanted to). He became a detective in 6 years and retired from Homicide Squad one week to the day before his death. He was 50. Interesting the things you find out later.... A Homicide sergeant brought me his picture in the mid-90s. He told me that they had had the picture on the wall at Homicide since my father died and that on each anniversary of his retirement a detective would bring in donuts; and when that detective retired, another started doing it; and then another... When the last detective that worked with him retired, the sergeant brought me the picture. May I presume all of your have read Walsh's Preface? That was my first intro to PC research. I.P. Thanks for sharing this info. > May I presume all of your have read Walsh's Preface? That was my first > intro to PC research. > > I.P. |
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