Happy Father's Day wishes to the guys who are Dads...and my continued
thanks to everyone here.
Good Health,
Ron B.

Has anyone in the group had open or laparoscopic PC surgery who was
also an ileostomate?  I had a total proctocolectomy (removal of entire
colon, rectum, and rectal stump) in 1999 as a consequence of ulcerative
colitis.  I have a stoma 2" below my belt line and 3" to the right of

Attention:
Joseph Jeffery Taber was born last night at 9:52 P.M., weighing in at an
even 10 pounds (for you metric users, 10 pounds = damned big!)
Baby and grandparents are doing fine.

Hubby discovered a lump on one testicle. It's at the very lowest part and
almost in between the two. We called the rad-onc office and they had us come
almost instantly. Blood work, chest x-ray (no clue why) and ultra sound of
his testicles, hubby must have had fun - two woman trying ...

Following LRP my foreskin has become a *fiveskin*
Don Cox

I was looking up Eligard and I found a link to Quote.com. Hey, isn't
that great that big investors can make money off of our suffering.
yeah, yeah, I know, we need investors and blah blah, but it seems so
cold-blooded to me at 0311 in the Peds ICU.

two nights ago I was driving in to work and tuned in for a brief time to a
radio show that I hadn't listened to for a while. the host was talking about
Cancer treatment and such and asked that anyone that was terminal and was
young with young kids to call and gave his producer's ...

Interesting article
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050618/D8APNGU00.html

4 months out..PSA <.04......hows that ? Uro said if I still have that
little sting in the tip when I pee he will have to go in and dialate the
ureatha.may be scar tissue from cath.  He said he CUT nerves on both
sides..weeer still inop...wanted me to try a pump which they "LOAN OUT"

A new study by University of Virginia Health System researchers has
found that prostate cancer patients who reach a very low-level PSA
(prostate-specific antigen) after combined radiation treatment using
brachytherapy "seeds" and hormone therapy have a 99 percent chance of

I just opened a new Knudsen poemegranate. It tastes really bitter, not
especially sweet, and leaves my tongue feeling furry. It is also a
brown colour and full of sediment. I opened a second jar to check and
it was just the same. I'm sure the previous jar (that I finished last

after 4 rounds of chemo, Curt's PSA continues to rise. it was 87 when he
started and jumped from 100 to 130 from the 3rd to the 4th. It appears that
he is not responsive to Taxotere.
I haven't told him yet. I will tell him the PSA but not that the onoc nurse

Waiting and watching for the dreaded signs of cancer's return can for some
hold some promise and hope for the future. A two year non return period and
doubling rates can be indicators of progression allowing time frames to be
prepared. Unfortunately Gleason 9 cases slip under the ...

Ed Friedman writes:

From my latest reading it appears that this is not necessarily the
case.  What is dangerous is skin burn from sunlight.  Tanning and

Dr James Brooks at Stanford will do my RRP on Thursday July 7 at 07:30
PST. First autologous blood donation done (my first ever blood
donation, no less - for a variety of reasons they would never take it
for anyone else); second one scheduled for 6/22.