Just a quick update; Radiotherapy went well, only side effect is difficulty swallowing but seems to be getting better. The headaches and pain seem to have subsided which is great.
Had PSA test week and it has gone up to 0.4 from 0.2 in 4 weeks, Onco wants to bloods every 3 weeks for the 9 weeks to see how much it rises then it will be onto abiraterone.
I have a friend in Florida that has PC and he sent me this the other day, it did make me giggle...hope it makes you smile too;
PROSTATE (COCKROACH) ANALOGY -
Prostate cancer is similar to finding a cockroach in the middle of your kitchen table. You panic, knowing that where there is one there are probably more and they do multiply. You call several exterminators.
The surgeon recommends removal. He'll use a chain saw and remove the kitchen from the rest of the house and repair the plumbing as best he can with what remains.
The external beam radiation exterminator wants to stand outside the kitchen and blast away with a twelve gauge shotgun hoping he will miss the plumbing.
The seed implant exterminator is really slick. He just wants to drill holes in the wall and toss in grenades.
The cryosurgery exterminator wants to drill holes in the walls and pump liquid nitrogen, hoping he doesn't freeze the plumbing.
The hormone guys...well, they just want to pump in sleeping gas. Knowing all to well that in a couple of years the cockroaches will wake up p****d off and hungry.
Chemotherapy boys will offer to poison everything in the kitchen and will promise you that if you eat the poison they will give you an antidote, which may or may not work.
The alternative medicine people will give you a bit of eye of newt and toe of frog plus a couple of other exotic ingredients and hope to hell that chases the cockroaches away.
There are the watchful waiting folks, some of whom are not real sure that there was a cockroach and some of whom think it may have been just an old bachelor roach with no kids that they saw.
Now, if there is only the one cockroach the odds are good--you can get rid of the infestation. However, if the little bugger laid eggs elsewhere or more of his buddies are lurking about in other places...well...you get the picture. In any case, life in the kitchen will never be the same. One of these days an exterminator will come along who just swats the cockroach and puts out poison bait for the others. You'll never know he was there.
Until then, good luck on your choice of exterminators and low or non-existent PSA's to you all.