The Shot!

As the seconds, minutes, hours go by I'm not laughing anymore and it's like someone has put my johnson in a clamp and started to try and get blood out of a turnip.

So, hi ho back to Duke I go. As of hour 4 1/2 I am laying on a table getting ready to have 1 small needle and 2 needles that looked to be at least a foot long place into the diamond cutter. Well after the almost painless procedure Mr. Johnson is back to his post PCa surgery size and much happier and so am I.

The plus out of today's excersise is - .2cc is not a lot so the Dr. think's I have some "good stuff in there". The next step is to make another appt. with my Dr. to receive another dose of Trimix, but only .1cc.

In closing it was nice to see my best friend again even though we had to sedate the crazy ******.

PSA 4.8

Gleason 3+3=6

T2

Biopsy - 3 of 12 (2@20% / 1@80%) 

Da Vinci 7/31/07 @ Duke

2.5 hr. surgery, released from Duke with in 14 hrs.

Saved both nerve bundles. 

Foley out 8/10/08

Positive Pathology Report 

Near left side nerve bundle

New Gleason 7

Oncology visit in the near future for radiation

Back to work 3 weeks following surgery - Sales

9/13/07 - 1 Post PSA Undetectable less than 0.1 

9/17/07 - Pad Free! 

Seriously, these things can be scary when they don't go according to plan.  I'll heed the story and encourage my doc to start out slowly.  Dr. Catalona recommends starting on injections 6-8 weeks post surgery and feels the blood flow is helpful to the ED rehab. 

42 yo.

PSA 4.65

Gleason scores from 4 pathologies of the same biopsy with 2 of 12 cores positive for cancer (if this isn't confusing to the patient...):

1) both cores 3+4 (Weiss Memorial)

2) one 3+4 and one 3+3 (Univ. of Chicago Hosp.)

3) both cores 3+3 (Mass General Hosp.)

4) both cores 3+4 (Northwestern Memorial Hosp.)

9/17/07 - Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy Surgery at Northwestern Memorial in Chicago by Dr. William Catalona.

and the winner is...post op Gleason score of 3+4.

Good pathology report with negative margins, no seminal vesicale involvement, no lymphatic or vascular invasion, bladder and urethral free and tumor volume was 5% of 27.3g.  Amazing how something so small can cause such problems!

9/27/07 - Catheter removal...let the games begin...

Da Vinci on 11/01/06, Catheter out on 11/13/06

56 Years Old

Post Op Path, Gleason 3+3, Approx. 5% of prostate involved

Prostate Confined, margins clear

Undetectable PSA on 12/18/06

No more pads as of 1/13/07

Began injections in April '07

Undetectable PSA on 6/25/07

Stage Tc1

Gleason 6

PSA 3.8

12 samples, positive in one 15%

Biopsy - 1% involvement, no bladder neck, Gleason 3+3, Tc1

Age 51

Surgery (robotic) May 4 2007 City of Hope

Final pathology - fully contained to prostate, TC1, Gleason 3+ 3

Fully continent one month

First Post op PSA - Undetectable

Second Post Op PSA (8/22/07)- Undetectable

Still no luck with ED start injections 10/06/07