Post RP and SRT journey - oh joy

Dappled shade

Hi Cushions,

I have good and less good days.
Physically I have pretty much recovered, but it has affected me in terms of my spirit of optimism.
It is two months since we moved out of the apartment and into the house, there is still a lot of boxes around, we have an amazing amount of stuff and this has to be found homes.
We some serious furniture to buy to stow it all away.
The garden is pretty big, about 600 square metres and grassed over, it would be too kind to call it lawn.
At the moment it is getting mowed, but its days are numbered.
Cattifluff has gone from being an apartment cat, eat sleep, repeat, to having a garden to hunt in, cat neighbours to chase off, etc, a massive change at fifteen years of age!
Summer so far has been cool and rainy, unlike parts of the south of France, which are gripped by another drought.
Brittany is like a warmer version of Wales but with fewer sheep!
I reckon that your results will be good, you have a very good chance that there was only a small amount of localised spread and the radiation and ADT have finished it off.
Best of luck, but it is the can, so no worries!

Best wishes,

Georges

Georges Calvez said:

Dappled shade

Hi Cushions,

I have good and less good days.
Physically I have pretty much recovered, but it has affected me in terms of my spirit of optimism.
It is two months since we moved out of the apartment and into the house, there is still a lot of boxes around, we have an amazing amount of stuff and this has to be found homes.
We some serious furniture to buy to stow it all away.
The garden is pretty big, about 600 square metres and grassed over, it would be too kind to call it lawn.
At the moment it is getting mowed, but its days are numbered.
Cattifluff has gone from being an apartment cat, eat sleep, repeat, to having a garden to hunt in, cat neighbours to chase off, etc, a massive change at fifteen years of age!
Summer so far has been cool and rainy, unlike parts of the south of France, which are gripped by another drought.
Brittany is like a warmer version of Wales but with fewer sheep!
I reckon that your results will be good, you have a very good chance that there was only a small amount of localised spread and the radiation and ADT have finished it off.
Best of luck, but it is the can, so no worries!

Best wishes,

Georges

Georges, Glad the cat is

Georges, Glad the cat is adjusting to the new life! We’ve got two cats who only show up for meals. I think they’d really like being indoors in the air-conditioned house instead of outside in the Southern California heat wave. When I try suggesting it to them, they run away. Bill

Quem será será

Yes, you are going to receive an "undetectable" report. In any case you may recall that 4 years ago you were close to the 4.0 mark and asymptomatic. 

I  am eager to celebrate again your results. After all I am allowed into a pub with my vaccine certificate. 

Best

VG

Georges Calvez said:

Dancing around

Hi there,

Your PSA is dancing around .07, which is close to the limit of detection of the old machine, it is also declining slightly.
It will be interesting to see if the new machine hands in the same results, PSA testing is notoriously dependent on analytical methods, standards and machines.
As long as it stays thereabouts I would not worry.
There is a lot worse stuff going on!
One of the neighbours came round tonight, she was having problems with her mobile phone, she had her **** and a small dog in tow, both of them were spat and hissed at by mademoiselle, so much for the entente cordiale!
Cattifluff is a mate in a furry onesie; she cuddles up in the evening, walks round the garden with us, has chatty miaows, does turbo purrs if I scratch behind her ears, etc.
On the downside, she is fiercely territorial and will attack other cats, small dogs, foxes, etc that stray on her turf, she also kills anything small and killable if she finds it.
Bastille Day, Mercredi, get the vin in!

Best wishes,

Georges

PSA jitters on this end, too.
PSA jitters on this end, too.
I’m getting a PSA blood draw done tomorrow. I’ve been on Lupron for the last six months. Even though I’ve had decent success with hormone treatments, I’m still worried about this blood test result. Somethings never change. I have allowed myself to be fairly trusting in the numbers (if they’re good). I’m thinking if I get a bad result this time around, I’ll be less accepting. I really like my urologist, but I’m we’ll see how the conversation goes if I balk at a ‘bad’ PSA number and decide to wait a month or two and get a second draw before going back on Lupron.
The Lupron Experience has been mixed for me. Worse than with Degarelix, Vanta or Zoldex. I felt lousy around the third month in: hot flashes, nausea and pain over a couple of weeks’ time. Slept okay. Not a lot of trouble since.
We had a problem with rats about a dozen years ago. The local housing market crashed about that time, and people left their homes and (too often) their cats behind. We (well, my wife and kids) were keeping an eye on about a dozen cats at one point. But (!) no rats.
The ranks of cats have thinned out since.
Reading the discussions on this site helps me enormously with coping.
Bill

Great News!

Great news Hew!

I will toast your great numbers tonight with a glass of red wine.

I wish you continued success on your PCa journey.

Pat on the back

Hi Hew,

I think you can give yourself a pat on the back and a wee dram of whatever you fancy for that.
It looks like you are in durable long term remission, a couple more like that and it will be really definite.

Best wishes,

Georges

hewhositsoncushions said:

Hey Georges

Hey Georges

I will certainly be doing that this weekend

I think you are right - such a drop was unprecedented and unexpected. I am going to work bloody hard to change my thinking to the positive outcome. I have six months to do so

Hope all is well where you are.

H

Good news, H
Good news, H
Glad to see the drop in PSA. I had to reread your results several times and thought ‘hey, that’s pretty good!’
Bill

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I do not recall if we celebrated with Bitter last time but it doesn’t matter. I will pop-up one of my favorites red wine "Esporão" (world's best) and raise my glass to your success. 

Congratulations 

VG

Out of the woods

Hi Hew,

I hoped that you were out of the woods and heading off into the sunlit uplands.
Hopefully you will have a good and quick experience with the NHS.
Things have been moving along in good and bad ways here, I will have to do an update soon.
PSA test on the 22nd of the month.
30 C today, cat was hiding indoors during the afternoon, she is now sprawled out under her favourite bush watching the sun go down, we are drinking Pimms and fizzy wine cocktails, barbecue later.
Thunderstorms, rain, etc later in the week.

Best wishes,

Georges