What do you say?

maldugs

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Posted 1/18/2013 2:31 PM (GMT 0)

Recently at a lawn bowls game one of the guys said " I hear that you had Prostate cancer" are you ok now? I said my PSA is not zero but the last one was 1.2 so I guess I still have Pca.

What do you say, have had the operation but the cancer is still there? or what?

Mal.

142

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Posted 1/18/2013 2:37 PM (GMT 0)

I just tell people "I'm a survivor, so far".

Purgatory

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Posted 1/18/2013 2:38 PM (GMT 0)

"i have been treated, but still have cancer"

Startech

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Posted 1/18/2013 2:49 PM (GMT 0)

142 said...
I just tell people "I'm a survivor, so far".

And thanks for asking,
(Optional) if you know someone that has questions about PCA, looks like I am gonna be the new local expert.

142

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Posted 1/18/2013 3:16 PM (GMT 0)

InTheShop

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Posted 1/18/2013 3:48 PM (GMT 0)

depending on my mood and/or the person asking annoys me my answer varies from:

"I am doing fine, so far I'm a survivor."

to,

"It ain't killed me yet."

81GyGuy

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Posted 1/18/2013 4:01 PM (GMT 0)

I simply say:

"I had radiation for it this past summer, and the two follow-up blood tests seem to indicate that the radiation is working."

An objective statement, which sums things up, and seems to me better than a vaguer, more subjective statement that I might make.

You could probably craft a similar kind of objective summary for your surgical experience.

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