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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / August 2007perspective
Just talked to a friend from work who has been having serious medical problems for over a year. He got those problems maybe half taken care of over the past few months and today he told me that the have found the cause of his ongoing sinus headaches. The headaches, up till now, had been a side issue to his other more pressing medical issues. He just found, thru the MRIs and such, that he has an inoperable malignant tumor in his sinus which they will be treating with radiation and chemo. I can't help but think that the cure rate is not especially good and that the treatment will be tough. Kinda puts my whining about the side effects of my RP in perspective. He certainly didn't deserve this, not that anyone does. Except for a couple of weeks post-op, my experience with this stuff is indeed minimal compared to what many endure every day. Even the limp Willie and pads are only a blip in my life. As I've mentioned before in this group, all we have to do is take a look into a childrens' cancer ward to see how foolish we are when we complain about our ills. At age 64 with hopefully a few more to go, I've outlived the majority of people who have ever lived, I've been almost totally pain free my entire life, I've never experienced even one day of hunger, I have absolutely nothing to compain about yet I still do. All the best to your friend. Dave Perry > Just talked to a friend from work who has been having serious medical > problems for over a year. He got those problems maybe half taken care [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > whining about the side effects of my RP in perspective. He certainly > didn't deserve this, not that anyone does. Last year as I prepared to undergo the LRP and all the concurrent annoyances, I started carrying around the 1997 edition of the UNICEF publication, *The State of the World's Children.* The issue focused on child labor around the world. Whenever I started feeling sorry for myself, all I had to do was to open it up and take a look at what some of those kids go through. And once I figured in the amount of money being spent to get rid of my cancer (and what such an amount of money woudl mean to some of thos echildren), I was downright ashamed to think of anything other than how lucky and blessed I've been. --charlie > Just talked to a friend from work who has been having serious medical > problems for over a year. He got those problems maybe half taken care [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > whining about the side effects of my RP in perspective. He certainly > didn't deserve this, not that anyone does. You might suggest a second opinion. A guy (72-years-old) just returned to work at my company who had an "inoperable tumor in his sinus". He got a second opinion and a surgeon said he could cut it out, but that he would lose an eye. He got a third opinion. Three surgeons operated simultaneously and he came back to work with both eyes, some strange scars and no tumor.  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 PSAD 0.19 years EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47 PSA .34 .22 .15 .21 .32 PSAD .056 years Lupron 07/03 (1 mo) 8/03 and every 4 months there after PSA .07 .05 .06 .09 .08 .132 .145 PSAD 1.4 years Casodex added daily 07/06 PSA <0.04, <0.05, <0.04 (06/12/2007) Non Illegitimi Carborundum |
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