I am seeing myself as a changed person since coming to terms with my diagnosis. Instead of looking for ways to work more and make more money I look for ways to spend time with my family.
On Friday, November 19 my husband began taking Bicalutanide and on Tuesday, Nov. 23 he received an implant of Zoladex. This is the first step in treatment. We haven't been told the stage he is but we know it is advance due to the high gleason and PSA numbers.
Feeling a bit anxious this morning... logged on to work to find out that I'd been removed from the project I was working on for the company I'm with - apparently my performance wasn't up to standards.
My first day of training for customer service went well. We got through talking about all the different programs we'll be taking customer service calls for, tomorrow at 11:00 I'll actually be able to start taking some calls, although technically I'll still be training.
Hadn't seen him in several years. Turns out he was diagnosed with PCa the same day I was, 1500 miles away. Also a Gleason 6. We had a good talk and agreed to support each other through frequent emails.
I voted yesterday for the PCF ! Hope the organization gets the much needed donation for research. One of the men I know had his prostatectomy at Duke last Monday and the other friend I have mentioned in my blogs is having his today. My thoughts and prayers are with them both.
My second day of customer service training went well - it consisted of starting to take some live calls. Calls were very slow since we weren't actually on the schedule, but once I actually start taking scheduled calls tomorrow I'll get way more calls.
The waiting question is interesting. I was required to wait 6-8 weeks after biopsy, which would put the procedure smack in Christmas week. I decided to put off the surgery another month so as to still have the vacation and family time, and to get my job situation squared away in January.
Hi, this is my first blog entry. Funny, I began a journal when Bob was diagnosed in early 2000. I wrote nearly every day for a year or so; then I made entries during treatment visits: surgery, recuperation, 40 days of radiation, and then all the follow-up appointments.
Yoga Bear, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing yoga to cancer patients now has online videos that are excellent. You can view them at www.yogabear.org/videos.
By Steven Reinberg
Wednesday, Nov. 17 (HealthDay News) -- A newly approved therapeutic prostate cancer vaccine won the support Wednesday of a Medicare advisory committee, increasing the chances that Medicare will pay for the drug.
Attendees at next week’s European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO) meeting in Milan will be presented with top-line Phase III Clinical Trials data on Abiraterone in the treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer.
Today Jim had a procedure done to see if the hole in his colon has healed. We had to be at the hospital at 7:45 am, even though it was the first snowfall of 5 inches for the winter season!!! Hate the snow!! Jim has had a catheter in for nearly the full four months after surgery.