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Posted 5/24/2013 9:08 PM (GMT 0)
Pet peeve: Typical new poster. Guy has a climbing PSA. Dr. is about to do a biopsy or maybe another PSA.

It is very nice to say Don't worry, there is nothing you can do until you get the result...blah blah blah.

But, seriously, do you think someone reading that will say "ok, guess I won't worry." Let's face it, with a few notable exceptions here, most of us get pretty anxious when facing upcoming PSA tests, especially with serious G-scores.

I would suggest that we do our best to calm the poster down, put a decent light on the subject, and perhaps acknowledge the fact that we know this is a worrisome situation.

I find it hard to tell someone with a rising PSA not to worry.

But, hey, maybe that's just me!!!

(Let's all sing together now, that great song from the Kingston Trio:

It takes a worried man, to sing a worried song...I'm worried now, but I won't be worried long...dada dada dada!)

Mel (PSA test coming up Thursday!)
Posted 5/24/2013 9:16 PM (GMT 0)
don't worry about it mel. its only a number
Posted 5/24/2013 9:19 PM (GMT 0)
No Todd.

Pi is only a number!

<g>

Mel
Posted 5/24/2013 9:20 PM (GMT 0)
ever see the movie "Pi"?
Posted 5/24/2013 9:29 PM (GMT 0)
Mel, don't worry about Todd telling you not to worry.

Jim

Posted 5/24/2013 9:31 PM (GMT 0)
I thought Pi was a food! Man I miss good food! shakehead
Posted 5/24/2013 9:41 PM (GMT 0)
Oh man, chocolate pi is the best and it is worry free at this point in life.

Todd is the king of no worries. He is my hero. Well maybe right behind chocolate pi.

Sonny
Posted 5/24/2013 9:42 PM (GMT 0)
Worry at will...and good luck!
Posted 5/24/2013 9:50 PM (GMT 0)
I like pi too. I usually eat 3.14 pieces

mel
Posted 5/24/2013 9:53 PM (GMT 0)
You so clever Mel cool !

Ed
Posted 5/24/2013 9:58 PM (GMT 0)
Dont worry...... be happy ! cool :-)
Posted 5/24/2013 10:23 PM (GMT 0)
I googled cancer friendly pies, guess what, we're all going to be cured by pies! All flavors! Even mud pies! Alleluia!
Posted 5/24/2013 11:09 PM (GMT 0)
StevenD,

Where did you get the picture of my Uro?
Posted 5/25/2013 12:33 AM (GMT 0)
Worry, but don't freak out.

Keep calm and carry on.
Posted 5/25/2013 12:48 AM (GMT 0)
I'm worrying that I am not worrying enough!
Posted 5/25/2013 12:55 AM (GMT 0)
I do think there is reason to tell people not to get worked up until they have the facts. My sister and I are genetically predisposed to always think the worse case scenario and it isn't fun living like that.

My brother in law had a lump the size of an egg in his testicles and overslept his appointment. It turned out to be nothing. I would have already gone to my lawyer to make arrangements (which I did prior to my PCa surgery in fact).
Posted 5/25/2013 1:03 AM (GMT 0)
Davidg

Look what you just wrote. You basically said you do tend to worry and get worked up. Do you think my telling you to just wait until you get results would diminish your worry one iota?

mel
Posted 5/25/2013 1:15 AM (GMT 0)
not to worry is usually preceded by try on the forum , in my experience. Is there a half life for pi? If you pronounced it the way the hawaiian language would, it would be phonetically pee Like in Paia. Phonetically pah ee ah. Just wanted to continue with a Pca connection…..
Posted 5/25/2013 1:16 AM (GMT 0)
no, I don't.

But this today while skying real time with Anna while she was waiting for the x-ray and then the sonogram and while she was crying, feeling sick to her stomach and freaking out all the nurses with her extreme anxiety I was giving her all the rationale in the world to not worry.

I was telling her how many women have those same exact tests and come back negative, how the docs were running up the bill on the ins company, how in this litigious society they would exhaust all tests, how a shadow is just a shadow, a lump just a lump, a fold just a fold and how she was just testing. Deep down I was worried paranoid like her but even if I made her 3 hour stay there 20% less anguished it was worth it.

Plus I look really cool now in her eyes that it turned out to be nothing :)
Posted 5/25/2013 1:17 AM (GMT 0)
I'm sure it's obvious from some of my posts, but I'm a worrier.

In my engineering field, I'm pretty much paid to worry about stuff. Worry is useful if it's guiding you into some type of action, or tweaking you that you've lost track of something important, or inducing you to make some plans. However.... worry as a practice by itself is pretty useless.

This PCa stuff is an absolute curse for worriers. Nothing is definite, always the terrible suspense of waiting for possibly life-altering test results, and it never ends! Once diagnosed, there's never an end to the tests and suspense.

Information is what always helps settle my mind. That's a big reason I really like conversing with all of you here - lots of good information and experience (well, some bad experience too, to be sure).

"Here's a little song I wrote, I'm going to sing it note for note...."
Posted 5/25/2013 1:18 AM (GMT 0)
Davidg That is cool on many levels.
Posted 5/25/2013 1:28 AM (GMT 0)
Redwing your song reminds me of a little rebuff I would give to pilots that would for whatever reason not reply to a transmission[ no this is not a car story ]. " Hawaiiian 235 if you hear me, nod your head". It always got them on frequency I will always maintain they nodded there head as they did….. btw the words of your song sucked but…. ooh the melody. tee hee
Posted 5/25/2013 2:43 AM (GMT 0)
I like peanut butter pi and wild blackberry pi and half a pi tastes just as good as a whole pi. btw.... I was suppose to have a p.s.a. drawn 6 weeks ago but I am awol
Posted 5/25/2013 2:53 AM (GMT 0)
Mel,

My PSA is only a number,
like pi is only a number,
but pi is irrational
and so, sometimes, am I
Posted 5/25/2013 12:45 PM (GMT 0)
Todd,
Do not fret over this thread while playing your guitar.
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