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Hi Guys. Hope you’re all readied for Christmas? 

We’re having a quiet Christmas Eve and Day. Only the MiL here as youngest is at his wife’s family this year. No driving so a few glasses of wine and a Christmas movie is on the cards. 

Oldest boy and family arrive Boxing Day from Jersey. We will pick them up at Gatwick - hope the traffic’s ok getting back through the Dartford tunnel.

Family get together on 28th with wife’s brother and partner joining us from oop North. 

Have my hospital consultation F2F tomorrow so a little bit nervous. Hopefully they’ll have a plan for the new year and the Radium 223. Have some awkward questions to ask like what’s next after the Radium…? And will I be able to fly during the course of treatment.

Noticing my head hair growing again now albeit very white and also my beard growing quicker. Presume it is a slight testosterone increase as the Degarelix isn’t doing much now. I won’t know as PSA and testosterone not listed on my latest blood test form. I do wonder why they want me to carry on with Hormone treatment when it’s obviously doing bugger all… Oh well they are experts. 

So still faffing around doing a bit of DiY. Boxed in small bit of soil pipe yesterday in downstairs cloakroom. Measured tiles for it this morning after my latest Degarelix injection. I’ll get me boy over to cut them with his fancy cutter tool.. 

So, hope you guys are all keeping well? Apparently lots of bugs around at the moment so keep safe. Had my Covid booster week before last and having the Flu one this week. 

Take care buddies,

Phil

Good luck with your consultation Phil, I'll be thinking of you 👍

Adrian, that sounds like our plans for Christmas. Got my youngest son staying at ours with my grandson, and my old mum if she makes it. My eldest son is doing lunch at his place, about 4 miles away, for the whole family, 13 of us in total. We'll be turning up with the cheeseboard, cake, and a carload of dining chairs!

Going down with man flu the last couple of days, which is bloody typical 😆, but on the plus side, I got my latest PSA result yesterday, and 5 months on from surgery it is <0.02, so undetectable!

The Hart family cancer tally continues to rise unfortunately. To add to me, my mum and my younger brother, my wife's mum has just been diagnosed with breast cancer, which has spread to her lymph nodes, liver, and possibly spine. Incurable, but full prognosis not known until meeting on Friday. I'm not remotely religious, but someone up there is taking the piss!

Despite the early hour, I feel the need for a virtual pint. Anybody up for one?

Take care lads.

What a fantastic early Xmas present, Ian. I'm really pleased for you mate!👍

But I'm sorry to hear about your mother-in-law. 😕

If we're all having an early drink. I'll have a  Guinness on me cornflakes. 

It reminds of when breakfast outings used to be all the rage. A full English and a few pints, all before 10am. The daft things we did when we were young. 🙂

Hi Kev.

Yeah, those spammers really jar me off!

One tried to infiltrate Phil's thread yesterday. 😡

To mess about on a site dedicated to cancer suffers is despicable. They should be caught and made to have a DRE from a doctor with hands like shovels. That'd teach 'em. 😁

I was thinking of beating the gaming spammers at their own game, and starting a thread on apt anagrams of prostate terminology. It might be a bit of a giggle for those who enjoy word games.

Other apt anagrams of 'prostate cancer' include 'Procreates not' and sadly 'Reaper contacts'

I had a real life breakfast outing yesterday morning. A full English and a pint of Batemans XXX in a Spoons in Grimsby. You can't get much rougher than that, but it was surprisingly good. 😁

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Hi Spongebob, Happy New Year to you and everyone out there 🥳. Let’s hope 2025 brings some happiness and good luck 👍

Having a quiet one this year as the missus is working all day till 6 and still suffering the after effects of the damned virus doing the rounds. 

Booked a meal out this Saturday coming instead . 

Odest boy and family flew back to Jersey yesterday so all quiet here… Was lovely having them here . Just having a tidy up and putting all the toys away till next time. 

This afternoon I’m looking up travel insurance as I’m only on Degarelix now for a bit so I can theoretically travel ok. And then booking up end of January flight to Jersey. Another Luton drive , hoping they restart Jersey flights from Southend again …!

It’s my 70th early April 🥴 so Jersey family coming over for that. Good to have stuff to look forward to 🙂

Take care everyone , 

(🎶 enjoy yourselves, it’s later than you think , enjoy yourselves, while you’re still in the pink 🎶) 

Phil 

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Hi Phil,

Sorry to hear that you're so tired  mate, and hope things improve. I've often wanted to pm you but haven't wanted to disturb you or put any pressure on you to respond. If you ever feel like a natter just contact me.

  I hope you have a great trip to Jersey and enjoy the Xmas Scooge show. My wife would say that I could play the lead role.

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Afternoon gents

Phil - sorry you're feeling so tired all the time, but glad to see you are keeping busy. It's good to have something to look forward to isn't it. I can't keep track of all your trips. I don't tend to get away much these days, but we bought a camper van at the end of last summer, so I intend to use it to explore more of this wonderful country, and possibly take it over the channel for a bit of warmer weather later in the year. I'm not really into camping, much to my wife's regret, but this thing has a nice double bed with a decent mattress, so I think I'll survive. Oh, and a nice beer fridge 😬

Adrian - how's the new year's resolution going? You shouldn't give up too many visits to your club mate, as the resulting stories keep us all smiling 👍

Had my review meeting with the Prof on Friday. PSA all good, so now he wants to get one of his colleagues to try and sort out the ED issue. Got to go to the Cleveland again tomorrow for a consultation with the lady in question. Not sure how I am going to enjoy talking to her about the state of affairs below the belt, but we'll see.....

On the leakage front, he wants to review again in 3 months, but is already floating the idea of more surgery to improve things if it hasn't got any better 🙄. Needless to say I am now on a crash course of PFEs (I had got a bit lax) to try and avoid this.

Anyway, I suppose I'd better get a bit of work done, so I'll catch up with you shortly.

Cheers.

Ian.

That may explain why I get slight stirrings whenever I get a can of squirty cream?

Hi all,

I'm late to the party, down to the last three mince pies now, all the tesco finest went last week. 

Adrian, you'll have to keep a can of squirty cream with the Invicorp 🤪

Phil, hope you're feeling better and that your energy levels pick up in time for your Jersey trip. Just realised it was last April that we were there, it's such a nice place, definitely going back to see what we missed first time round. 

We just booked flights to Zurich for the wife's birthday next month.. then the boiler packed up a couple of days ago 😭😭 the guy's here installing it now. We were hoping to nurse it through to the spring, but we had to move it forward by about four months. 

Ian, I had a female ED nurse (not in the biblical sense) it's a bit weird but what's it matter if yet another woman touches my penis 🤷‍♂️ I remember when she injected my penis for the first time, very very weird, my Mrs had to wait in the corridor due to covid. Anyway, we raced home and used my erection before it wore off.

As for a camper van, my Mrs likes the idea and we've been discussing the pros and cons of using one to do a road trip. As I've got older I've got more accustomed to airbnb's and hotels though. 

It's c.c.cold here but boiler bloke reckons he'll be done around lunchtime 🤞🏻

Cheers all,

Kev.

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Well, quite, but there was that moment of dread as she cupped my nuts - " Oh s***, what if it suddenly recovers now" 😂

To be on the safe side, she should have worn safety goggles?

£220 for a pump! That's a bit stiff! 😁

I'm so pleased that Bentancur is OK. I felt sick when he dropped like a sack of spuds.

Thanks for your kind comment, on starting our virtually pub Phil, but any pub is only as good as its clientèle. It's worked out pretty as much as I'd hoped. My only fear is that newbies might find it a bit cliquey. It would be nice to see others pop in and join 'the regulars'. The more the merrier!  Anyway, I'll shut up, it must be the beer talking. 😁

Will any of you lads be watching the cup match. Arsenal v Man Utd this afternoon BBC1 at 3 pm. My beers are ready and I'm doing homemade chicken kebabs. What a good way to spend a cold Sunday afternoon.

⚽️🍺🥙.

Cheers Phil. I didn't realise that was televised. You've moved all my plans forward 3 hours. 😁

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Yes, just not enough work rate, or quality….