Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us
Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network
Home
Discussion Groups
General
GeneralCardiologyVisionDentistryPharmacyLaboratoryNutritionAlternative
Diseases and Disorders
AIDSAlzheimer'sArthritisAsthmaCancerBreast CancerDiabetesEpilepsyGlaucomaHepatitisHerpesLupusProstate BPHProstate CancerProstatitisSinusitisTinnitus

Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Prostate Cancer / January 2004

Tip: Looking for answers? Try searching our database.

My LRP

Thread view: 
Enable EMail Alerts  Start New Thread
Thread rating: 
peter*pan - 27 Jan 2004 18:09 GMT
My story is not as compelling as Dans, but I don't believe that the standard RP would have gone easier.  Before reading the following, note that my uro had a great deal of experience, as well as statistical data indicating high %s of success.

*** My surgery was 7 hours.  One of the nerve bundles was sticky (this is often a bad sign).  It took over an hour to free it.  The initial surgery took 4 hours.  I stayed in op while the uro waited for a preliminary path report.  After an hour the path report came back with positive margins where the sticky nerve bundle was, and near the urethra, required removing that bundle, as well as taking another thin slice from the urethra - another 2 hours in surgery.  

*** Spent 2 hours in post op - it's hard to wake up after that much time under anesthesia.

*** Post-op:  Lots of pain.  I had bladder spasms from the get go, and they were bad.  Spent 3 days in the hospital, and did no walking until the 2nd day.

*** JP drain:  Did not come out for 10 days.  After 6 days, they pulled the stitches, and tugged on it to move it: theory is drain holes were sitting right on an opening in the anastomosis, and the vacuum was sucking fluid out at a steady enough right to keep it from closing.  Moved it again on the 8th day - finally drainage stopped.

*** 11th day:  Fever of 103+.  2 shots of antibiotics in the butt plus oral.

*** Foley:  Out on the 17th day.  Uro insisted on a full week after JP drain removal.  17 days of hell.  I hated that thing, and as the last few days ticked down, I thought I would die waiting.

*** Incontinence:  Bad from day one.  I could squeeze and slow the flow, but it would still trickle out.  Sleeping was ok, but sitting, standing, or worse, walking, was like a flood.

*** Perineal pain: Severe, and needed a donut to sit for 10 weeks.  This apparently affects ~10% of patients.

*** I'm now at 8 months, feel great, and am down to 2-3 pads in 24 hours.  On days that I am active, I use more.  But since I started at 12+ a day, and *any* activity meant changing every 30-60 minutes, things are much improved.  I coach youth soccer, and initially I was running to the car every 30 minutes.  Now I can go 2 hours no problem.  I'm anticipating that this will end, but there are of course no guarantees.  I try and do 400 kegels a day.  Interestingly, as bad as it was, I have *never* had any accidents.

*** Impotence:  Yes.  I have tried shots - erection was too painful.  Have used the pump.  This works great, and if it is true that you "use it or lose it", then I highly recommend.  I have used Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, with little to no success, although I get better results with the pump when using these drugs.  I have no side effects from any of these, other than the blue haze and being flushed from Viagra and Levitra.  I had been using 100mg of V, and 20mg of L.  I just went down to 50mg of V recently, and had no side effects, and actually saw some positive reaction.

*** Summary:  My dad had an RP 15 years ago, and told me in hindsight he would not have gone that route.  But after looking at my options, and my age, I decided that was the best shot at a *cure*, and for less, long-lasting, side effects.  And of course there was the LRP as an option.  At this point, my PSAs are < 0.04, and there is hope on the incontince and impotence.  

My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8 weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home (without the donut!).  

That Harley is my "Happy Thought", which as we all know, is all you need to fly.

Peter Pan
peter*pan - 27 Jan 2004 19:46 GMT
reformatted...
My story is not as compelling as Dans, but I don't believe
that the standard RP would have gone easier.  Before
reading the following, note that my uro had a great deal of
experience, as well as statistical data indicating high %s
of success.

*** My surgery was 7 hours.  One of the nerve bundles was
sticky (this is often a bad sign).  It took over an hour to
free it.  The initial surgery took 4 hours.  I stayed in op
while the uro waited for a preliminary path report.  After
an hour the path report came back with positive margins
where the sticky nerve bundle was, and near the urethra,
required removing that bundle, as well as taking another
thin slice from the urethra - another 2 hours in surgery.

*** Spent 2 hours in post op - it's hard to wake up after
that much time under anesthesia.

*** Post-op:  Lots of pain.  I had bladder spasms from the
get go, and they were bad.  Spent 3 days in the hospital,
and did no walking until the 2nd day.

*** JP drain:  Did not come out for 10 days.  After 6 days,
they pulled the stitches, and tugged on it to move it:
theory is drain holes were sitting right on an opening in
the anastomosis, and the vacuum was sucking fluid out at a
steady enough right to keep it from closing.  Moved it
again on the 8th day - finally drainage stopped.

*** 11th day:  Fever of 103+.  2 shots of antibiotics in
the butt plus oral.

*** Foley:  Out on the 17th day.  Uro insisted on a full
week after JP drain removal.  17 days of hell.  I hated
that thing, and as the last few days ticked down, I thought
I would die waiting.

*** Incontinence:  Bad from day one.  I could squeeze and
slow the flow, but it would still trickle out.  Sleeping
was ok, but sitting, standing, or worse, walking, was like
a flood.

*** Perineal pain: Severe, and needed a donut to sit for 10
weeks.  This apparently affects ~10% of patients.

*** I'm now at 8 months, feel great, and am down to 2-3
pads in 24 hours.  On days that I am active, I use more.
But since I started at 12+ a day, and *any* activity meant
changing every 30-60 minutes, things are much improved.  I
coach youth soccer, and initially I was running to the car
every 30 minutes.  Now I can go 2 hours no problem.  I'm
anticipating that this will end, but there are of course no
guarantees.  I try and do 400 kegels a day.  Interestingly,
as bad as it was, I have *never* had any accidents.

*** Impotence:  Yes.  I have tried shots - erection was too
painful.  Have used the pump.  This works great, and if it
is true that you "use it or lose it", then I highly
recommend.  I have used Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, with
little to no success, although I get better results with
the pump when using these drugs.  I have no side effects
from any of these, other than the blue haze and being
flushed from Viagra and Levitra.  I had been using 100mg of
V, and 20mg of L.  I just went down to 50mg of V recently,
and had no side effects, and actually saw some positive
reaction.

*** Summary:  My dad had an RP 15 years ago, and told me in
hindsight he would not have gone that route.  But after
looking at my options, and my age, I decided that was the
best shot at a *cure*, and for less, long-lasting, side
effects.  And of course there was the LRP as an option.  At
this point, my PSAs are < 0.04, and there is hope on the
incontince and impotence.

My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in
25 years.  8 weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a
new Softail, and rode it home (without the donut!).


That Harley is my "Happy Thought", which as we all know, is
all you need to fly.

Peter Pan
c palmer - 27 Jan 2004 20:00 GMT
hi peter - what's i noticed is that through the years of different folks
having different types of treatments, it boils down to one thing - the
luck of the draw.  boy, that is a lot to risk on a roll of a pair of
dice, but that seems to best way to summarize these treatments.  

some guys get the LRP and never have a problem, yours was not the case.  

some guys get radiation and never have a problem,  others are plagued
with ongoing situations.

some guys get RP's and never have a problem, while others would tell a
story similar to yours.

i happen to fall into the RP category since i had mine last april.  i
had my share of nightmares, but mainly from the scaring and had to have
subsequent surgeries to straighten that up.  the RP came off pretty much
as planned, and with the usual things that one might experience.
however, i was able to have erections a couple of weeks post op.  and i
was 99% continent after about 7 months.

right now, i would say, that i'm fairly close to where i was -
healthwise - a year ago, minus the prostate cancer.  

while i don't push the RP as the answer or any of the other treatments
either.  i'm posting this for the lurker who might think one way or the
other on some of the treatments.

but - i'm just curious - i will ask this from the other members.  if
someone was to walk up to you and stated that they had pca, and wanted
to know what treatment they should get,  what would be your answer.

would you recommend your path?  would you recommend another?  do you see
a particular path of treatment that may have more problems to watch out
for that another might not have?  

and here is another suggestion - just as we have a check sheet for post
op care that joe price is so kind to post for us (thanks joe)  can we
come up with a check off sheet for a person who is first dx'ed with pca?

what should be on the sheet and who wants to be the keeper - joe????  

we got a great team and i am thinking in terms to make it easier on the
new person.  he's got enough on his mind with what he just got told.

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
Alan Meyer - 27 Jan 2004 21:00 GMT
> but - i'm just curious - i will ask this from the other members.  if
> someone was to walk up to you and stated that they had pca, and wanted
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> a particular path of treatment that may have more problems to watch out
> for that another might not have?

My own treatment was 2 HDR brachytherapies + EBRT.

Here are my recommendations:

1. Look for a clinical trial.  It's a way to get excellent care, reduced or
no
cost and, most importantly, a way to do something that will help your son
and grandson and the sons and grandsons of all your friends.

I personally believe that the care I got in a clinical trial was not only
very good, but somewhat ahead of the state of the art, administered
by doctors who were among the best in the field.  If it did no
good for anyone else then, for purely selfish reasons, I think I'd still
look for a clinical trial.

2. I would probably recommend implanted seeds + external beam
radiation.  If the Gleason was high, I would probably also recommend HT
as a precursor ("neoadjuvant") therapy.  I'd also recommend sending the
slides for a second opinion to be sure since Gleasons are so often under
reported.

Here's my rationale:

1. Radiation over surgery.

As near as I can tell from every clinical trial I can find, modern radiation
has
an equal outcome with surgery.  Some people don't believe it.  I do.

Radiation has a quicker recovery time and less risk of complications
and side effects.  There can be complications and side effects for
sure and they can be bad, but my understanding is that they are less
common.  Impotence is common.  Difficulty urinating for a while is
common.  Incontinence is rare.  Infection is rare.  Blood clot is rare.

If the cancer has penetrated beyond the prostate capsule, radiation may
even have a better chance of a cure than surgery.  With Gleason 7 or
above, that becomes a serious possibility.  See EBRT below.

2. Implanted seeds.

Studies show that the chance of a cure is directly proportional to the
amount of radiation delivered to the tumor.  Implanted seeds, either low
or high dose rate, can deliver more effective radiation to the tumor than
EBRT for the same amount of peripheral damage (one might call them
losses due to friendly fire.)  The difference can be very significant.
Implanted seeds takes the radiation level from adequate to overkill,
which doesn't bother me when the enemy is cancer.

I took high dose rate temporary seeding because that's the clinical
trial I found.  Low dose rate permanent seeds would also have been
perfectly acceptable to me - and would have the advantage of only
one hospital procedure instead of two, with a possible disadvantage
of having permanent implants.

3. External beam radiation.

Studies have shown that EBRT + seeds yields a higher cure rate than
seeds alone.

Presumably, the reason is that a significant number of men have cancer
penetration outside the prostate, but still in the immediate vicinity.  I've
been quoted numbers ranging from 15-50%, but even at the low number
I consider it worth dealing with.

With surgery, we have a good, (but maybe not perfect) indication of whether
cancer cells exist in the surrounding tissue.  With radiation, we have less
indication (MRIs and CT scans can tell us if there are significant
penetrations,
but small ones may not be detected.)  It's best to treat the patient as if
there are some there.

---------------------
Now, having said all of the above, I'll also say that every cancer patient
would probably do well to speak to both a surgeon and a radiation
oncologist.  The advantages of one treatment over another, and one
type of treatment over another, are not absolutely obvious.  Since all of
the treatments work about the same when well done, much depends on
what fits the particular patient's desires, needs and fears.  For example,
for me, I once had a botched surgery and was very leery of having
another.

When I tell someone about what I would do and why, I'll recommend
the above.  But I'll also tell them it was a personal decision and other
very different decisions can work out better for a different person.

   Alan
Steve Kramer - 27 Jan 2004 22:44 GMT
Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03

> we got a great team and i am thinking in terms to make it easier on the
> new person.  he's got enough on his mind with what he just got told.

I had RRP and had to stay in the hospital 8 days due to surgical
complications.  If I had it all over to do again I'd opt for RRP (RLRP
wasn't avaiable to me in 2000).

Of course, if I had it all to do over again, I'd get my PSA tested more
often.

Signature

Prostate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor
PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46
Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c
RRP 12/15/2000
PSA  .1  .1  .1  .3  .4  .8
EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47
PSA  .3 .2  .2  .2 .3
Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48
HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48
PSA  .1

David S - 27 Jan 2004 20:01 GMT
   Gee, great, how lucky we were to be part of the 10% with peritoneal
pain.  Glad that is in the past, but I still have the donut.
   I envy you the Harley.  I got a laptop computer so i could work anywhere
in the house (wife not happy with the time I spent upstairs on the ng -
Heather you heartbreaker) and reclaim the desk top.  Bet you are having more
fun with your toy than me.
   Best of luck on defeating the evil twin "I's" (incontinence &
impotence).  I am six months out and still fighting the good battle, but no
real progress to report.
   Thank you.
David S.

> My story is not as compelling as Dans, but I don't believe that the standard RP would have gone easier.  Before reading the following, note that
my uro had a great deal of experience, as well as statistical data
indicating high %s of success.

> *** My surgery was 7 hours.  One of the nerve bundles was sticky (this is often a bad sign).  It took over an hour to free it.  The initial surgery
took 4 hours.  I stayed in op while the uro waited for a preliminary path
report.  After an hour the path report came back with positive margins where
the sticky nerve bundle was, and near the urethra, required removing that
bundle, as well as taking another thin slice from the urethra - another 2
hours in surgery.

> *** Spent 2 hours in post op - it's hard to wake up after that much time under anesthesia.
>
> *** Post-op:  Lots of pain.  I had bladder spasms from the get go, and they were bad.  Spent 3 days in the hospital, and did no walking until the
2nd day.

> *** JP drain:  Did not come out for 10 days.  After 6 days, they pulled the stitches, and tugged on it to move it: theory is drain holes were
sitting right on an opening in the anastomosis, and the vacuum was sucking
fluid out at a steady enough right to keep it from closing.  Moved it again
on the 8th day - finally drainage stopped.

> *** 11th day:  Fever of 103+.  2 shots of antibiotics in the butt plus oral.
>
> *** Foley:  Out on the 17th day.  Uro insisted on a full week after JP drain removal.  17 days of hell.  I hated that thing, and as the last few
days ticked down, I thought I would die waiting.

> *** Incontinence:  Bad from day one.  I could squeeze and slow the flow, but it would still trickle out.  Sleeping was ok, but sitting, standing, or
worse, walking, was like a flood.

> *** Perineal pain: Severe, and needed a donut to sit for 10 weeks.  This apparently affects ~10% of patients.
>
> *** I'm now at 8 months, feel great, and am down to 2-3 pads in 24 hours.  On days that I am active, I use more.  But since I started at 12+ a day, and
*any* activity meant changing every 30-60 minutes, things are much improved.
I coach youth soccer, and initially I was running to the car every 30
minutes.  Now I can go 2 hours no problem.  I'm anticipating that this will
end, but there are of course no guarantees.  I try and do 400 kegels a day.
Interestingly, as bad as it was, I have *never* had any accidents.

> *** Impotence:  Yes.  I have tried shots - erection was too painful.  Have used the pump.  This works great, and if it is true that you "use it or lose
it", then I highly recommend.  I have used Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, with
little to no success, although I get better results with the pump when using
these drugs.  I have no side effects from any of these, other than the blue
haze and being flushed from Viagra and Levitra.  I had been using 100mg of
V, and 20mg of L.  I just went down to 50mg of V recently, and had no side
effects, and actually saw some positive reaction.

> *** Summary:  My dad had an RP 15 years ago, and told me in hindsight he would not have gone that route.  But after looking at my options, and my
age, I decided that was the best shot at a *cure*, and for less,
long-lasting, side effects.  And of course there was the LRP as an option.
At this point, my PSAs are < 0.04, and there is hope on the incontince and
impotence.

> My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8 weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home
(without the donut!).

> That Harley is my "Happy Thought", which as we all know, is all you need to fly.
>
> Peter Pan
Sandy - 28 Jan 2004 15:06 GMT
> > My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8
> weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home
> (without the donut!).


What is it with men and motorcycles!!!!  I left my husband with our 7
year old daughter last weekend to have some quality time together.
Their tentative plans were to go shopping - my daughter loves to shop.
When I asked my daughter later about their shopping excursion she
informed me that they spend the entire afternoon looking at
motorcycles!!  And her daddy told her that he's buying a motorcycle
and nobody (I guess that means me) is telling him otherwise!!  We've
been married for 21 years and I made my husband sell his motorcycle
early in the marriage because I thought they were too dangerous and he
had his children to think about - well now I guess it is time for him
to think about himself!  I now feel quilty I made him give up
something he loved so much but I'm sure he'll make up for it!!

Sandi
Steve Kramer - 28 Jan 2004 19:00 GMT
Sandi,

Men probably like all that power between their legs.  Personally, I just
liked being out where is no one else around me.  When you're going 70 MPH on
an expressway with the air hitting your face, it's almost as if you are
totally alone and singularly involved with the environment on a very special
level.  Nothing but you, ....your thoughts, ....and the idiots trying to
kill you.

But, if you've ever ridden on the back of a Harley, you have some explaining
to do.....  Why is it that women love THAT so much?  And it has to be a
Harley.  Hondas won't do.

> > > My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8
> > weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>
> Sandi
DanR - 28 Jan 2004 23:21 GMT
Steve,
I beg to differ, my wife loved riding on the back of my gold wing.  But
you are right, there is nothing quite like tooling down the road at 70 -
just the wind and the idiots!
DanR
c palmer - 28 Jan 2004 23:36 GMT
hi dan - i love my goldwings - i have two older ones.  one has the air
ride which is sweet because the wife has had three back surgeries and
doesn't hurt her.  

i had a harley and it has a romance about it.  

i've had a v-max - now that was power

i''ve had a suzsuki mk 4 that love to live on the back wheel.

but i guess i'm just getting old because i like the faring, the luxuries
on the cycle and my idea of cruising is 20 - 30 on the hard surface back
roads with no cars around.  

to come upon a patch of honeysuckle and smell it as you drive by.  to
see the fox looking at me.  to come over the top of a hill and be
greeted by a deer and it doesn't run off but as you come to a stop and
just admire nature as both of two of watching each other.  

if i was doing 70, i would miss the beauty of what nature has to offer.
like i said, maybe i'm just getting old and sitting out and watching the
grass grow for a change.  

to me, there is nothing like to cruise on the cycle at midnight to wind
down and relax before going to bed.  

~ curtis

knowledge is power - growing old is mandatory - growing wise is optional
Heather - 29 Jan 2004 07:18 GMT
I just saw this and am on the floor!!  What a hoot!!  Tell your wife it
is a big compliment to me........at my age.......to be 'the other
woman'.....LOL!!

Hey.......about Buttercup.  I have never had dogs but have a 17 lb.
Wonder Cat who never drinks water or milk.......but we add a fair bit of
water to his wet tinned food and that seems to be all he needs.  The
only time I ever saw him dash for the water bowl was when we fed him
some curried chicken.....(VBG)  But he sure loves to drink out of the
tap.  Go figure!!

Cheers.......Heather
>     Gee, great, how lucky we were to be part of the 10% with peritoneal
> pain.  Glad that is in the past, but I still have the donut.
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
>
> "peter*pan" <peter*pan@neverland.com> wrote in message

news:daf497f4ae3e4f784600a4544090b757@localhost.talkaboutsupport.com...
> > My story is not as compelling as Dans, but I don't believe that the
> standard RP would have gone easier.  Before reading the following, note that
[quoted text clipped - 68 lines]
> >
> > Peter Pan
Alan Meyer - 27 Jan 2004 20:23 GMT
A very useful report.  Thanks.

With every kind of treatment it seems that complications and
unanticipated bad effects can occur.  Your report may help someone
see what can go wrong and get a better picture of how tough things
can be.

More important even than that however, your report shows that
even when things get tough, they are survivable and time + determination
will often win in the end.

As for your final advice (about the Harley), you've hit the nail on the
head.  There's nothing like a bout of cancer to let you know that it's time
to go out and do some of those things you've always wanted to do.

Best of luck.

   Alan

> My story is not as compelling as Dans, but I don't believe that the standard RP would have gone easier.  Before reading the following, note that
my uro had a great deal of experience, as well as statistical data
indicating high %s of success.

> *** My surgery was 7 hours.  One of the nerve bundles was sticky (this is often a bad sign).  It took over an hour to free it.  The initial surgery
took 4 hours.  I stayed in op while the uro waited for a preliminary path
report.  After an hour the path report came back with positive margins where
the sticky nerve bundle was, and near the urethra, required removing that
bundle, as well as taking another thin slice from the urethra - another 2
hours in surgery.

> *** Spent 2 hours in post op - it's hard to wake up after that much time under anesthesia.
>
> *** Post-op:  Lots of pain.  I had bladder spasms from the get go, and they were bad.  Spent 3 days in the hospital, and did no walking until the
2nd day.

> *** JP drain:  Did not come out for 10 days.  After 6 days, they pulled the stitches, and tugged on it to move it: theory is drain holes were
sitting right on an opening in the anastomosis, and the vacuum was sucking
fluid out at a steady enough right to keep it from closing.  Moved it again
on the 8th day - finally drainage stopped.

> *** 11th day:  Fever of 103+.  2 shots of antibiotics in the butt plus oral.
>
> *** Foley:  Out on the 17th day.  Uro insisted on a full week after JP drain removal.  17 days of hell.  I hated that thing, and as the last few
days ticked down, I thought I would die waiting.

> *** Incontinence:  Bad from day one.  I could squeeze and slow the flow, but it would still trickle out.  Sleeping was ok, but sitting, standing, or
worse, walking, was like a flood.

> *** Perineal pain: Severe, and needed a donut to sit for 10 weeks.  This apparently affects ~10% of patients.
>
> *** I'm now at 8 months, feel great, and am down to 2-3 pads in 24 hours.  On days that I am active, I use more.  But since I started at 12+ a day, and
*any* activity meant changing every 30-60 minutes, things are much improved.
I coach youth soccer, and initially I was running to the car every 30
minutes.  Now I can go 2 hours no problem.  I'm anticipating that this will
end, but there are of course no guarantees.  I try and do 400 kegels a day.
Interestingly, as bad as it was, I have *never* had any accidents.

> *** Impotence:  Yes.  I have tried shots - erection was too painful.  Have used the pump.  This works great, and if it is true that you "use it or lose
it", then I highly recommend.  I have used Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis, with
little to no success, although I get better results with the pump when using
these drugs.  I have no side effects from any of these, other than the blue
haze and being flushed from Viagra and Levitra.  I had been using 100mg of
V, and 20mg of L.  I just went down to 50mg of V recently, and had no side
effects, and actually saw some positive reaction.

> *** Summary:  My dad had an RP 15 years ago, and told me in hindsight he would not have gone that route.  But after looking at my options, and my
age, I decided that was the best shot at a *cure*, and for less,
long-lasting, side effects.  And of course there was the LRP as an option.
At this point, my PSAs are < 0.04, and there is hope on the incontince and
impotence.

> My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8 weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home
(without the donut!).

> That Harley is my "Happy Thought", which as we all know, is all you need to fly.
>
> Peter Pan
dale.j. - 27 Jan 2004 21:53 GMT
In article
<daf497f4ae3e4f784600a4544090b757@localhost.talkaboutsupport.com>,



> My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8 weeks
> after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home (without
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> Peter Pan

In 1977 I motorcycled to Jasper and fed the bears, well almost, then
back down thru BC.  I have a picture of my motorcyle sitting on the
great divide.  It was a memorable trip and I'll never forget it.

I wish you well in your recovery.  My doc says it takes up to three
years for all to heal up.

Dale J.

Signature

Email:  dalej2@mac..com

Steve Kramer - 27 Jan 2004 22:35 GMT
> My only advice:  Buy a Harley.  I had not ridden a bike in 25 years.  8 weeks after surgery, I went out and bought a new Softail, and rode it home
(without the donut!).

> That Harley is my "Happy Thought", which as we all know, is all you need to fly.

Had a '76 Honda 750SS up until just before I moved into this condo.  No
place to put it and I found that I had become a fair-weather rider.  Now
that I'm here, I realize my garage is big enough for a bike.  So, on March
29, 2011 (retirement), I'm buying a Harley.  All I have to do is live that
long.

Signature

Prostate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor
PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46
Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c
RRP 12/15/2000
PSA  .1  .1  .1  .3  .4  .8
EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47
PSA  .3 .2  .2  .2 .3
Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48
HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48
PSA  .1
Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03

David S - 28 Jan 2004 02:45 GMT
   why wait ???  buy it now and enjoy it.

> Had a '76 Honda 750SS up until just before I moved into this condo.  No
> place to put it and I found that I had become a fair-weather rider.  Now
> that I'm here, I realize my garage is big enough for a bike.  So, on March
> 29, 2011 (retirement), I'm buying a Harley.  All I have to do is live that
> long.
Steve Kramer - 28 Jan 2004 18:55 GMT
I'll have the money then.  You're an accountant, do the math!  :-)

Signature

Prostate Cancer Survivor (so far), not a doctor
PSA 16 10/17/2000 @ 46
Biopsy 11/01/2000 G7 (3+4), T2c
RRP 12/15/2000
PSA  .1  .1  .1  .3  .4  .8
EBRT 05-07/2002 @ 47
PSA  .3 .2  .2  .2 .3
Erection 05/12/2003 @ 48
HTbegins 07/21/2003 @ 48
PSA  .1
Lupron 7/03, 8/03, 12/03

>     why wait ???  buy it now and enjoy it.
>
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> > 29, 2011 (retirement), I'm buying a Harley.  All I have to do is live that
> > long.
Alan Meyer - 28 Jan 2004 05:07 GMT
> ...  So, on March
> 29, 2011 (retirement), I'm buying a Harley.  All I have to do is live that
> long.

Sounds like a damn good reason to stick around.
Tom Cular - 28 Jan 2004 14:41 GMT
> > ...  So, on March
> > 29, 2011 (retirement), I'm buying a Harley.  All I have to do is live that
> > long.
>
> Sounds like a damn good reason to stick around.

I agree with Alan, however, if your body and your wallet can do it now;
enjoy it now and have 7 more years of Harley time. There's no dress
rehearsals, we only go through life one time.

Tom
 
Sign In
Join
My Latest Posts
My Monitored Threads
My Blog
My Photo Gallery
My Profile
My Homepage

Start New Thread
Enable EMail Alerts
Rate this Thread



©2008 Advenet LLC   Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.