Happy to be back on-
Thank you Karen-I was getting a cmplex-lol
Joyce: My hubby dxs in 06 with9.9 Gleason and 2 months without surgery. So, they removed prostate and unfortunately it had apread to bladder, so they removed some tissue and valves, resulting in almost complete incontinence-it has been really hard for him, as a man and sometimes I forget that. They said they could not get all the cancer without killing him, so he had about 2 years...I bought him everything he wanted and now cancer is in remission, but never gone. It metastasizes to bone, which is very painful. He had 43 radiation treatments and female hormone shots ( we were hot flashing together-lol). His PSA has been 0 since then.
My Dad had prostate cancer from 64 til he died at 79-his doctor did "watchful waiting" but said dad would die of something else before PC did. And they were right. So, for most , it is very slow growing. Radiation was hard, just going every day and my husband, who has always been a ball of fire, really slowed down. Much less stamina and energy, I don't even remember much nausea. They have radiation that is sofocused that it doesn't have the side effects. Doctors say everyone will react differently. Hope that helped. Let me know if you have any other concerns.
Weird, my stepmom had lymphoma, but she is too mean to die_haha-she hasn't spent all my dad's money...then she'll go-sorry that was ugly
The fact that my behavioral health dept of our large hospital has no prescribing docs just has me floored. Now I will run out of my abilify and Katie has to wait 2 more weeks to even start meds- the last time I wrote a complaint to board of directors, they managed to kick me out of pain management and blackball me with other docs. Do they run ERs with no doctors? Why should the mentally ill be any different?????
My beautifel bayou- they call it black water bayou and it is, it's not cloudy/muddy but there is so much organic stuff in it it is clear and black if that makes any sense. We live on Four Dollar Bayou which lead into Umbrella Bayou which leads into the big mam Bayou Lacroix (of the Cross). That leads to freshwater river Jordan and into the Bay of St louis and into the Gulf and you can go anywhere in the world from there. The smaller bayous are 20-30 feet wide 15 deep with stands of bamboo, sawgrass, chinese tallow, cypress, live oaks and lily pads. Before the storm, you could hear the cannonballing and squeals of laughter up and down the bayou, the smell of your neighbor's grill, the bzzzing of hummingbirds, rat a tat of woodpeckers, cool bats eating mosquitos at night as the candles spluttered and we finished our wine and put down exhausted sunburned kids, 3 or 4 in a bed. Like I said before, we didn't have a pot to pee in or a window to throw it out of-lol and Katie was still a happy child. Why does the world have to steal that innocence and make us be hard to survive. We have 1 neighbor out of 5 on the street pre-Katrina, no kids. They never rebuilt the skating rink, movie theatre or bowling alley. The kids have no place safe to go`, so they ride and that's trouble. Where did all the money everyone sent down here go??? Understand that we had to replace everything...stuff like 30,000 telephone poles for starters but why couldn't theey allot some for the kids? Alot of politicians here lined their pockets.
Anyway, all I have to do to feel better is gon out on the deck and watch, ducks geese, silly dogs, snappin turtles, mullet jumping and hummingbird and butterflies sip nectar-that part they can'take from us..
Love you guys
Maggie