New Member Saying Hello

First the introduction...My name is Les (Hi Gordy) and my wife's name is Vanice. I must admit that I have been lurking here for the last several months (albeit candid from my wife so not to worry her) and I want to give a very big Thank You to all the members here.  Having read all your journeys has made receiving the news so much easier for me.  However Vanice is still trying to get her head around all of it.  Because this new journey belongs to the both of us, she will now have a place here to come also to get her questions answered that I don't have the answers to and for that, another very big thank you to all.  

We haven't decided just yet on any one treatment as we won't have our consultation with the urologist until later this month.  He just called yesterday with the biopsy results so we are newbies.  We are starting our research now and we are leaning towards surgery due to my young age (58) and in reasonably good health.

The first thing while waiting to decide, I am going to try to get into better physical condition and hopefully lose a little weight.  I am currently 6'2" and 225...not too bad but I think dropping a little weight would be good.  So I would be interested in what general exercises would be most helpful before surgury that will help with the recovery afterwards.

Any and all suggestions will be most helpful.

Thanks to all,

Les and Vanice

Hello, Les and Vanice

I found that lots of walking, before and after, but especially after surgery did the most good for me as to recovery.  AS exercise you do before is great, of any kind.  Before, combine walking with stair climbing, abdominal crunch's, and such.  Strengthen those abs so you and the surgeon, if you go that route, will have an easier job of it.  Your stats, except for height and weight almost mirror mine.  I can say that you should consider yourself fortunate to have found it early and that you have what is probably the earliest stage and easiest to remove situation, so you have no big pressure to rush into things.  Walk, walk, walk....

Welcome Les and Vanice! HealingWell has been an incredible source of support and information for my entire family and I during our journey (if that's what you call it) with prostate cancer.  I hope that you find the same source of support here for your family.  I'm sorry about your dx, but glad you took a step past lurking

Best wishes in your treatment decisions.  From your signature, it appears that you have caught your pca in it's early stages.  Keep asking questions and stay positive! 

Doting