Season’s Greetings

It’s not Christmas yet, even on this side of the Date Line, but knowing that some members wisely tune out over the holidays, I thought I’d start this thread now.

A big thank you to all forum members — new, regular, veteran, elite — for helping me through another PCa year. Not to mention the typhoon. Power has been restored to about 2/3 of Saipan. Mrs Paradise and I were fortunate to get ours back two weeks ago. I’m bacheloring it at the moment — the missus is visiting family in Thailand — the dogs are looking after me. Day 9 of my no-beer, no-bread, no-rice diet, and I’ve shed a whole two pounds! Will wonders never cease.
My date to the Christmas party this year will be a shamefully underage 2015 Little Black Dress CabSav. Wishing everyone a similarly satisfying (and legal) dirty little secret.
Happy holidays, even to the lurkers.
—SP

Thank you for starting the thread Rich, as I'm sure many will be traveling this weekend. It's good to know your power is back on now. Enjoy your "date" and congrats on the weight loss (we all know it goes off a lot slower than it was put on). Ken, welcome to Florida. It's been rainy and chilly on the gulf side. Wearing a coat makes it seem a bit more like the holidays.

On today's date two years ago my wife was finally released from the hospital, just in time for Christmas. But thank goodness for Jewish doctors as she was readmitted just two days after. It was a time of tremendous stress for both of us. Thankfully it all now seems to be well behind us. Thank the Lord. And our older son will finally be coming home from the mid-east two months from now.

So Merry Christmas everyone, Happy Hanukkah or Festivus, and hoping for a very happy and healthy new year for all.

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2014-15: PSA's 9,12,20,25, Neg DRE's, false neg TRUS biopsy
6/16: MRI Fusion biopsy, 6 pos Rt Base, 2x40%+2x100% G8(4+4)
8/16: DaVinci RP, 3 foci EPE, PNI, 11 LN-, 53g 25%, BL SVI, pT3b
1/17: 18 months Lupron, PSA's ~.03
5/17: AMS800 implant, revised 6/17
8/17: 39 tx RapidArc IMRT (70 Gy)
1/18, 4/18, 7/18: PSA's 0.0, T=9
4/18 Dx Radiation Colitis (PRD)
10/18 Tx Sclerosing Mesenteritis

Thank You Saipan. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to all members of this great forum!

Happy Holidays to all!

and good health, too, for the New Year.

Your contributions and postings are so helpful. Thank you!

Robert

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69 now
Jan '08-'11 PSAs 2.2 2.5 2.7 2.6, DREs-
Jan '12: PSA 3.6, DRE+
Jan '12: MRI inconclusive
Feb '12: PCaDx pT2a, 4/12+ (3 @ 3+3, 1 @ 4+3); 3% tot cores; bone scan-
Apr '12: RALP; 3+4=7; pT2c pN0 pMx; 30%; 3mm r lat margin of 3+3=6 so pT2+; EPE-; PNI+; 8 LN-; SV-
TRT 03/'14-now; uPSAs: <.015 til 02/17; mostly .020-.030; then .048 on 12/1/18

Merry Christmas to all here. The support and guidance provided is without measure. Peace and blessings to all in the New Year!

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Husband’s info: Dx July 2018. 6 of 12 cores positive - 3 cores 4+3 and 3 cores 4+4. PSA 5.7 2/18, 6.2 5/18 RALP 8/29/18. 9/27/18. Path report: G9 4+5 pT3b, N1. EPE+, SVI +, pos margin left bladder neck, lymph nodes 1/9 positive, prostate 48g, prostate involvement 35%
9/27/18 1st post-op PSA 0.06

Happy powered up Christmas!!!

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I'll be in the shop.
Age 58, 52 at DX
PSA:
4.2 10/11, 1.9 6/12, 1.2 12/12, 1.0 5/13, .6 11/13,
.7 5/14, .5 10/14, .5 4/15, .3 10/15, .3 4/16, .4 10/16, .4 5/17, .3 10/17 .3 4/18, .4 11/18
G 3+4
Stage T1C
2 out of 14 cores positive
Treatment IGRT - 2/2012

HiRich, it was nice to meet you in person. Happy holidays. Denis

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65YO healthy man, PSA 5/17 4.6, MPMRI, 5/17 lesion. 13 core biopsy 3 positive 3+3 and 1 positive in a lesion, All cores less than 30% 8/17 - the second opinion Yale pathology shows a small amount of (3+4) in one core, < 5%, decipher test shows intermediate risks. HDR BT completed 2/6/18. 5/3/18 3 month Post HDR BT PSA 1.3, 6 mo PSA 1.2.
Denis

Festive Salutations to all my brothers regardless of faith or belief. Wishing you all peace, prosperity, good fortune, and the opportunity to help one another feel grace and love in this world that there is all too little of. We have all received a gift of one more day. Let's cherish it and let our light shine through. Peace.

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11/13 psa 240
DX 10/2013 PSA 187.5
PSA HIST 07/11,3.31;3/10,1.87,3/06,.87
Biopsy 10/28/13; 11/12 cores positive gs 9 (4+5)
BNSCN 12/09/2013 2 hot spots in spine
ADT 12/17/2013 22mg lupr, 50 mg Cas
RALP 2/19/14 NN,LVI,Path T3BNX,MX,
PSA 3/14 .6, 6/14<.1;9/14,;.6;12/14, 1.2;3/9/15 3.9;6/2/15 23
7/15 begin chemo
11/15 chemo fails begin Zytiga, with Zometa
01/16 psa <.1

I like ya Rob...but please explain how jewish doctors are different from other doctors...do you have any discernment at all...subtle...yet extremely annoying...if a strawman is in your response...save it...good lord...what is wrong with people...the irony...0h the irony...and the forum rolls on...oblivious to all that is true... ' oh I wont mention it ...it might hurt his holiday"...don't make me quote Jim Jones here....Im still flabbergasted...help me understand...someone...

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gleason 9 contained stopped psa testing jan 2015 with two consecutive psa's a year apart at 0.15
surgery 10/09 only treatment...eyes wide open...no sand...gonna live til I die...not the reverse forgive my virtues as well as my sins...

logoslidat said...
I like ya Rob...but please explain how jewish doctors are different from other doctors...

Sorry, but I do understand how an explanation might be called for. My wife had a relapse over the weekend of Christmas on Sunday that year... might not have been the best day to get in to see a christian doctor. He referred her to a specialist right away and she had emergency surgery the next morning. I suspect that another doctor might have just said call me tomorrow.

Logo,

It is very common that folks of groups that don't observe a specific holiday step up to give those who do a day off. So the bit of volunteer spirit means that the service is not as short-handed as it might have been.

I've seen this often in the Police and Fire departments in my town.

I always feel relieved when January 2nd arrives. The holidays are done, the daylight hours are lengthening, and I always have a sense of optimism for the new year.

Good luck to everyone in the year to come.

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Part I
2015 (Age 54) PSA: 20.8
Bx: All cores high volume G7 (4+3)
RALP & Adjuvant RT
Pathology: G8 (4+4), focal areas of 5; Positive margins; 3 LNs negative
PSA nadir: 0.1
Steady PSA increase. June 2018: 22.3

Part II
2018
Starting Lupron/Zytiga soon.

Merry Christmas everyone. Thanks to all who have supported me. It was this time last year I was diagnosed. I feel very grateful to have made it this far and in fairly good shape. I go tomorrow to get my first post everything PSA test.

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Dx at 62
11/17/2017: PSA 33.8
12/12/17: TRUS/BX, PSA 34, 59cc, PCa in 10/12 cores, G 1(2), G2 (3), G3 (5)
12/27/17: CT-Negative
12/28/17: BS-Negative
3/5/18: RP, pT3b N0 R1, G 4+3+5 80% involved, extensive PNI, POS margins bladder neck and SVI
4/19/2018: PSA 0.1
6/11/2018: PSA 0.2
7/05/2018: 6 month Lupron shot
8/07/2018: Begin SRT 40 treatments
10/2/2018: Completed SRT