Posted 1/6/2024 6:43 PM (GMT 0)
Hard to believe today, January 6th, is the 9th anniversary of my RALP. Looking back, I was 65, scared sh!tless, and not knowing what the world had in store for me. Thinking about it now, at 65 years old, I was a young man LOLOL.
9 years later, it turns out it was a bump in the road, even with recurrence 3 years later. Been undetectable for 6 years, had 2 grandsons, bought a place in Florida for the winters, and life is good.
I got a call from a friend yesterday, whose Cardiologist did a PSA and called him with results, said it was 4.1 and he should see a urologist. He was real scared. I was able to calm him down, pointing to my experience, and educating him to know that it could well be nothing, but even if it turns out to be something, he will be fine. That ability is one of the good things that came out of my diagnosis. Not the only good thing.
So to all those that show up here now and in the future, with their hair on fire like mine was in 2015, take heart, the world is not about to come crashing down on you, whatever you are imagining, couldn't be farther from the truth about what is going to happen (or not happen)
And thanks to Redwing, AYooper, Worried Guy, Cajun Jeff, my dear friend Sonny who I will never forget, Compiler, PeterDisableard, Tudpock, Bluebird123 and her husband who has become a good friend, Melanie, and all the others here who got me through it. When I was a young man of 65.
This place is literally a lifesaver.