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Posted 8/20/2013 4:05 AM (GMT 0)
Well I ticked the box, "do you wish to donate your prostate to science?"
As a matter of fact I do, anything that causes that prostate grief I'm into right now.
So it will be in a jar, on a shelf, cold, possibly not lonely, with all of the other prostates.

This was important to me with 2 sons following on behind, and hope some good comes of it.

I know this is a rubbish post, just my sense of humour at the moment, appologies.
Posted 8/20/2013 4:13 AM (GMT 0)
Whenever I am cleared to have prostate removed, I will do the same, organ donor on driver's license too.

You have good results going from G9 (5+4) to T2b. Congrats.

In my case w bony mets, all the medical team feels no need to remove the prostate until other metrics improve with ADT.

LupronJim
Posted 8/20/2013 2:27 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Jetskifisher,

This is great post! I wish I had seen that check box. I would have been glad to do it.
I figure mine went into a biohazard bucket where it was burned and turned into CO2 and water vapor.
Who knows? One of the CO2 molecules in that breath you just took might have come from my poor, vaporized prostate.

You're welcome!

Jeff
Posted 8/20/2013 3:22 PM (GMT 0)
My wife and I celebrated our 10th anniversary in May...right in the midst of my dx, preparing for surgery, etc.

At one of my urologist appointments, we joked with the doctor that 10 years was the "prostate anniversary," and all had a great laugh when I mimed handing my wife a little walnut-sized gift.

So you're not the only one with a warped sense of humor...!
Posted 8/20/2013 4:36 PM (GMT 0)
LOL- so if your prostate was named 'Mel' then, there be no place "for Mel-to-hide", let me make it more clear as Formaldyhyde the liquidity stuff in the jar preserving little Mel. (for-Mel-dyhyde) Might be the HT drugs I've had over a number of years, that brought on that stupid joke, oh well.

Not to get 'teste' about all this.
Posted 8/21/2013 12:35 AM (GMT 0)
I missed that box also, but I too, would have put a big check mark in it. Oh well, ...mine was a puny little thing anyway...if I remember correctly it was a mere 37 grams. Probably too small to be of any use to the med research types. But, I have done the driver's license organ donor thing, although, I'm acquainted with a heart transplant recipient who tells me that the driver's license thing can be overridden by surviving family members. He says the best way to do it, in addition to the DL method and a living will, is to sign up on this website:
http://www.organdonor.gov/index.html
I'm always a bit leery of any website that ends in .gov but I'm hoping this is one of the few things the gov can do right.
Posted 8/21/2013 2:02 AM (GMT 0)

zufus said...
LOL- so if your prostate was named 'Mel' then, there be no place "for Mel-to-hide", let me make it more clear as Formaldyhyde the liquidity stuff in the jar preserving little Mel. (for-Mel-dyhyde) Might be the HT drugs I've had over a number of years, that brought on that stupid joke, oh well.

Not to get 'teste' about all this.

A prostate named "Mel" that's very good, what a laugh!
Just have wait for the very witty to turn up.......2 prostates were talking.....................................
Glad that we seem to be getting the last laugh here
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