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Posted 8/11/2015 3:41 AM (GMT 0)
I am doing the happy dance tonight and if I had a bottle of Cab I would open it and have a celebratory glass or 2 with my beautiful wife. Note to self..... Buy more wine. May have to opt for a little time in our room. ..... Note to self lock the door. 110 months since diagnosis and the last 20 have been a big fat zero...... yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Posted 8/11/2015 4:36 AM (GMT 0)
turn Happy, happy, and ecstatic for you and your family Todd. Keep em comin bro!
Posted 8/11/2015 6:16 AM (GMT 0)
Fantastic Todd. You are the Poster Boy for the group.

A great inspiration for all of us. Congratulations.🍷🎉

Chas

PS, after you lock the door, throw away the key😉
Posted 8/11/2015 6:50 AM (GMT 0)
Big Congrats Todd! Note to self, buy Todd bottle of wine!
Posted 8/11/2015 9:53 AM (GMT 0)
Just Love seeing that zero!
Posted 8/11/2015 9:53 AM (GMT 0)
Way to go Todd!
Posted 8/11/2015 10:15 AM (GMT 0)
Great News.
Posted 8/11/2015 10:40 AM (GMT 0)
Great news!
Posted 8/11/2015 11:04 AM (GMT 0)
Great News!!! Keep those ZEROS coming!!!

Rick
Posted 8/11/2015 12:00 PM (GMT 0)
Congrats Todd, hope you stay a continued member of DA Club!


Bill from Florida cool
Posted 8/11/2015 12:05 PM (GMT 0)
Todd –

Just recently while websurfing I came across the wonderful poem below, "Invictus" ("Unconquered"), published in 1888 by Victorian poet William Ernest Henley.

The spirit of this poem is the spirit of so many who have come to this forum, and who are even here right now, but it also reminds me so very much of what you have been through and how well you have handled it:

INVICTUS

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Posted 8/11/2015 12:09 PM (GMT 0)
You da man!
Posted 8/11/2015 12:10 PM (GMT 0)
Lieutenant.... All I can say is wow!
Posted 8/11/2015 1:21 PM (GMT 0)
Todd, Todd, Todd...couldn't happen to a nicer guy! We're so very happy for you!

Don & Susan
Posted 8/11/2015 1:59 PM (GMT 0)
Congratulations Todd!!!

Keep those zeros coming.

and get the bottle and check the door lock. ;)

Andrew
Posted 8/11/2015 2:09 PM (GMT 0)
Congratulations. Enjoy.
Posted 8/11/2015 2:37 PM (GMT 0)
Congrats, Todd!
Posted 8/11/2015 2:38 PM (GMT 0)
YES. Chills. I hope you realize what an incredible inspiration you are my friend. SO happy for you and Mandy, and yep I'll hoist a glass or few of Cab with/for you tonight Bro. Had to go back and fill in the blanks on a quote from Winston Churchill that IMHO epitomizes your strength and outlook on life:

"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
Posted 8/11/2015 2:41 PM (GMT 0)
Brother Todd,

Congrats.....I'm breaking out my weekly martini tonight in your honor.

Jack
Posted 8/11/2015 3:23 PM (GMT 0)
Congrats!! So good to hear good news!! Just imagine...what if there were 20 more with a 0? Possibilities are limitless, you are breaking all kinds of standards and means and expectations...
Posted 8/11/2015 3:27 PM (GMT 0)
Congratulations, Todd. You're such an inspiring presence to all of us on this forum. Take care and hang in there.
Posted 8/11/2015 3:38 PM (GMT 0)
All I can say is Wow! What a journey. Congratulations.

Shiraz and Pinot are not bad either.

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Age 63 in 2015
12/02 PSA 2.9 age 51
9/03 BX/DX, Gleason 6, 4 of 12 cores
9/03 Brachytherapy
5/08 PSA nadir 1.1
12/08 PSA 1.8
2/09 BX/DX, Gleason 8, 1 of 12 cores
6/09 Hyperthermic Radiation, Hormone (short term), IMRT (10 fractions) spring 2009
10/09 PSA nadir < 0.1 10/09 through 01/12
4/12 PSA 0.2
3/14 PSA 2.9
5/14 C11 Acetate PT/CT, found 2.0 cm lymph node
5/14 Lupron/Casodex (9 months)
8/14 nadir <0.01
2/15 SBRT to node, at UCSD
3/15 PSA 0.02,T=0
6/15 PSA<0.015,T=105 (yippee!)
Posted 8/11/2015 7:14 PM (GMT 0)
Major congratulations, Todd! And your sweet news is potential sweet news for the rest of us, so you increase our hope!
Posted 8/11/2015 9:34 PM (GMT 0)
Awesome news!
Posted 8/11/2015 9:40 PM (GMT 0)
Congrats, Todd! You're an inspiration to all of us! Keep 'em coming!
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