Hello everyone: I'm sorry i haven't posted in quite awhile. It's been a really rough past few months. Rob lost his fight with this blank cancer on January 8 2009. Rob's cancer took the use of his...
Hi Gordy: Sorry i'm late with congrats, but congrats, good to hear someone fighting this *** thing back. Keep fighting. Lifeline...
Hello Dutchy: I am so sorry to hear this news. My heart aches for you and your husband. I pray that your time together is full of have peace and love. I pray for a miracle for both of you. You have...
Hi everyone: I know it's been awhile. I hope everyone is doing good. Roughly a month ago Rob started vomiting. This doesn't happen all the time, every once in a while. It comes out of the blue then...
Les and Walt: I am so sorry to hear about your news. You are both strong fighters and after you've had time to digest this, i know that both of you will continue kicking this disease in the butt. You...
Hi Walt: Sorry to hear your news but i know you will continue to fight hard. You're just that kind of man. You inspire so many of us here. I sure know that you inspire me and when i'm down i read a...
Hi Gordy: Congratulations on your good news. I'm so happy for you. You deserve it. You've worked hard to get there. You continue to be in my prayers. Again, congrats. Lifeline...
Hi everyone: Thank you so much for your quick response and help. Gordy, we live in Timmins, it's a town in Northern Ontario, 4 hours north of Sudbury. I am looking into the sites given to me that...
/community/emoticons/sad.gif /community/emoticons/mad.gif Hi everyone: Sorry i haven't been here for awhile, lot of stuff going on. I really need help and info if any for this. Rob's hands have...
/community/emoticons/sad.gif Hi everyone: First, congratulations War-Eagle on your psa drop. Hope you enjoyed your steak. Well, we are both discouraged now. After only 6 weeks Rob's psa has started...
Hi Hopemylove: I echo what everyone else has told you. My husband's diagnosis 2 yrs. ago was a psa of 900, also gleason score of 10. The course of treatment at this point is as the dr. said. My...
Hi War-Eagle: Congratulations on the new numbers. I'm so glad you finally got some good news. It has been quite the uphill struggle for you this past year. You deserve some positive news. I agree,...
Thanks so much everyone for your quick replies. Myman, thank you and i will look into the website about counselling you sent me. Bluebird, thanks so much for your words of encouragement and help....
Hi everyone: Yesterday Rob told me that when he went to the washroom there was blood in his stool and the water in the bowl was pink. This is the first time this has happened. He is regular and...
Hi War-Eagle: Congradulations on your drop in psa. I'm glad you are handling the chemo well. You are a true inspiration to us all. Keep up the good fight. Lifeline...
Hi everyone: Thank you everyone so much for your answers and posts to my last post. When i'm feeling like i can't do this anymore, i read your posts to me and it helps me pick up my socks, get a grip...
Hi everyone: Rob and I finally got back from Sudbury last week. We were down a bit longer than first excepted. After 10 session of radiation he is impatiently waiting for his hands to be better....
My prayers go out to Wes and his family. I hope he is now at peace. I too hate this disease which lurks so silently and grows sometimes without us knowing it until it is too late for some of our...
Hi JustJulie: Sometimes the hardest part is the waiting. It's too bad you guys have to wait so long. Try to be positive but i know that's hard. My prayers are with you and yours and I will say an...
Good luck KN. My prayers are with you. Stay positive going into surgery. Hope you join our group. These people are an amazing group. Lifeline...
Tony: I'm so sorry for the loss of your mother. I can only imagine your grief. She must be so proud looking down at you and watching how you continue to help others. You are truly a wonderful and...
Hi everyone: Rob and I went to Sudbury this past Wed. for his radiation on his spine (C7) because of the numbness in his hands and arms as i mentioned before. Sometimes i really think that he and i...
Hi Walt: If anyone can do it it's you. you are a great source to all of us. At times when my faith falters (which unfortunately is a lot) I read your posts and for awhile my faith returns stronger....
Hi everyone: I'm so sorry I haven't posted lately. Just feeling a bit down and having the occasional bout of panic attacks and crying jags. Feeling better now. Since Rob's 1st chemo we saw our family...
Thank you sooo much for everyone's response. Since the last post, 2 days later Rob's pain started to subside and has since subsided immensely so I guess (again) I panicked and expected meds to work...
/community/emoticons/confused.gif Hi everyone. We no longer know what to think. As i posted Rob felt like a new person after his transfusion. He had his chemo this past Thurs. and has gone downhill...
Myman; thanks for letting us know of Les' update. He and his wife are in my prayers. He is a strong fighter and i know that he will continue to fight and drive this beast back. Stay positive Gordy...
Thanks to all of you who answered so quickly. I really appreciate all of your help and support. Well, we met with a regular medical oncologist in our town (Timmins, which is a northern town in...
Thank you everyone for your replies and endless support and prayers. I will press my family dr. for any more ideas when I see him on Monday. We also have an appointment with the oncologist up here...
Hi Gordy: You are in my prayers and good luck on your tests next week. You are a source of inspiration and I only wish I could be as strong as you are. You've done good so far, keep fighting and...
/community/emoticons/sad.gif /community/emoticons/mad.gif /community/emoticons/confused.gif Hi people: Well yesterday's meeting with chemo oncologist did not go well. Rob's psa is now 735, up from...
Hi: thanks everyone for your quick response. Since the last post Rob has had a few partial good days, but these last 3 days are not good and we are so confused. The ache in his muscles, (i keep...
Hi Everyone: Rob had bloodwork done of Jan.14/08. This was done in preparation for our meeting with the Chemo Dr. whom we meet with on Jan.29. As stated in my last post, he has been extremely...
/community/emoticons/confused.gif Hi everyone: Rob had his Zometa Jan.9/08 and normally doesn't see the side affects, achy, tired etc. for a couple of days. This time he had pain, aching, and tired...
Hi everyone: My husband and I live in the real north. We are 4 hours north of Sudbury Ontario, Canada. Boy we get cold winters here. Sometimes temps. as low as -40c at night and at times -30c days....
Hi Sandy: My husband's situation is similar to yours. He was diagnosed in May/05 with advanced p.c. His initial psa was 900, but his Gleason Score was 10, not good. Following a bone scan it showed...
/community/emoticons/confused.gif /community/emoticons/mad.gif /community/emoticons/sad.gif hi everyone and thanks to all of you for your fast response. i'll try to make this short. i don't...
/community/emoticons/confused.gif hi everyone and happy new year. it's been awhile and a busy last month. Rob's pain in his hip and upper back had increased since my last post so we were scheduled...
Hi Everyone: Thanks for all your input and help to my last post. I have searched our book stores, Chapters, Indigo, etc... with no success in finding Dr. Snuffy Myers book Beating Prostrate Cancer....
/community/emoticons/sad.gif hi everyone: sorry i haven't posted for awhile. last week we saw our oncologist. the news was devestating to us. Rob's psa jumped from 80 in Oct. to 439 last week. boy...
hey myman: congratulations and way to go. i'm so happy for your good news. you deserve some. what a lovely christmas this will be for both of you. keep up the good fight. wishing you both the best....
thanks to all of you for your words of encouragement. rob's pain has pretty much totally subsided though he's still somewhat depressed and worried, (understandably) especially about the bumps under...
my husband's cancer had spread to his hips, back, and shoulders when diagnosed and he was in pain. our oncologist immediately had him down to Sudbury for radiation, and while it was mostly for his...
hi everyone: as per my last post rob's psa had risen to 80 and he was in a fair amount of pain for the past week. it has finally subsided to nothing or at the most not even a level of 1. dr. said...
Hi Col: As TC said sorry you have to be here but welcome and this is a magnificent site. thank you so much for your info. my husband was diagnosed May 06 with stage 1v prostrate cancer which has...
to everyone who responded to my last post about robs psa climbing and the other stuff i wrote. thanks from the bottom of my heart. if i hadn't found all of you neither of us probably would have made...
Creed_three: congratulations, way to go!!! hope this continues for you, it's always good to hear good news. keep up the good fight. yours sincerely, lifeline...
/community/emoticons/sad.gif hi everyone: well things did not go well with our oncologist today. rob's psa has gone from 58 in sept. to 80 now so this means that the kenocotozone is no longer...
i received your e-mail bluebird but i still haven't hooked up with myman. i used her e-mail adress that was in the members list, but still no luck. is their another e-mail i should be using? not sure...
hi myman: it's probably not you doing anything wrong with the e-mails, i'm not the most computer savvy person. i've checked again and still can't get your e-mail. some questions, does the fact that...