JustJulie ~ Brachytherapy Special Request :)

Hi JustJulie & Loved One,   With us coming on board in May feeling my way around… We had no idea how important this forum would become to us!   Over the past 10 months you have been sharing on different threads… your experience “Your Journey”… and Jetguy and several others have educated us to the world of radiation.   Over the past few months we have become more Knowledgeable because of all of your postings…. Caring Enough to Share ~ Teaching us!!!                         I’m sending a “special” Hug to Both of You! and a                                   “ WOO HOO ” and yee haa!!!! Partial quote from you … 11-06 My husband just finished his 6-month treatment and he's doing great.  His PSA dropped from 3.74 to 0.95 (3-months) to 0.61 (six-months).  Doctor says everything looks great!   A full year is just around the corner….. and knowing what the next step is in regard to this treatment, testing… etc…would be so helpful to have the complete picture….   As time permits……. Would you post a Journal Entry for all of us and newbies.    Sample Title:   Brachytherapy Our Journey or Journal or Diary….   Your journey is very important and to have it all on 1 Thread … would be wonderful and so helpful!!   I’m thrilled Jetguy is posting his journey on 1 thread and editing the 1 st post each time to update so it stays at the top… !!!   This will be so helpful to so many future friends…   You have given so much positive information about Brachytherapy ~ to so many forum friends… on different postings… It would be great to have it all on your personal thread!!   Please consider this!!!     Sharing of your KNOWLEDGE Makes us all more POWERFUL in making DECISIONS on treatment!!!   Keeping you close in thoughts and prayers And a very special Thank you! for you!!!   In Friendship ~ Lee & Buddy mama bluebird - Lee & Buddy… from North Carolina Link to our personal journey…>>>      Our Journey ~ Sharing is Caring   April 3, 2006  53 on surgery day RRP / Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy with "wide excision" PSA 4.6   Gleason  3+3=6    T2a   Confined to Prostate June 29th ~ PSA Less than 0.1 Non-detectable

JustJulie's Brachytherapy Journey (direct link ~ just click on the title!   Reminder to click on the REFRESH icon once there)   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   ~   Dear Julie ~   You are so very welcome!!   Each time you posted over the many months on this forum ~ something kept staying inside me each time I read them.   I eventually went back and copied each one separately ~ so I could see the whole picture.   And then I thought!!!   We need this Journey on 1 Thread…   Thank you… Thank you… Thank you… You have made many mind’s rest easier my dear friend….   In more ways than one!!!   Truly!   Yes ~ pro surgery is very evident but it is only 1 Stone… out of many Stones (options) to choose from.   And how fortunate we are to have these options…     I think the thing that ~ made me really stop and re-visit my own thoughts and why I had them ~ was a comment by Jetguy early on in his postings.     **Partial Quote from Jetguy: I have not yet decided what course of treatment to pursue and since none of them are ideal, I'm really working on it. It won't be popular on this site , but I'm looking hard at radiation. If that is my decision, I'll be sure to stay here so others who have the same interest can share my experience. This is such a great place that I want to encourage those who choose other than surgery.   How wrong he was and time has proven it!!!   His threads have 2669 total views. What does this tell us!!!!   And he has stayed true to his decision to allow us to walk with him on His Journey … by posting regularly on his 2 threads I’ve linked below…..     Thank you! Bill *Our Jetguy   This is another reason why it was very important for Your Journey to be told. Thank you!!!!  Julie   Keeping you extra close at this time!!! In Friendship ~ Lee & Buddy     **(direct links ~ just click on the title!   Reminder to click on the REFRESH icon once there)   Jetguy's Page... Welcome Friend :)   (2243 views as of 1-25-07)   Radiation - a journey   (426 views as of 1-25-07) mama bluebird - Lee & Buddy… from North Carolina Link to our personal journey…>>>      Our Journey ~ Sharing is Caring   April 3, 2006  53 on surgery day RRP / Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy with "wide excision" PSA 4.6   Gleason  3+3=6    T2a   Confined to Prostate June 29th ~ PSA Less than 0.1 Non-detectable