I Can Now Relate to Hyman Roth
reverendhornibastard
Depraved Deacon of Degeneracy
A few weeks ago, I didn’t know I had a heath problem. I was enjoying life, my kids and traveling to whittle down my bucket list.
Then my doctor told me I had prostate cancer.
I was surprised. I had no symptoms. I could still pee like a horse. l spent no time at the urinal squeezing our a few drops at a time.
Things have changed.
Two weeks into radiation therapy, the side effects I was warned about are, one by one, becoming part of my daily life.
I now pee a few drops at a time, occasionally have bloody urine and I can relate to Hyman Roth’s statement, “I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.”
The good news, my doctors caught it early. According to them, I will live to debase myself again for another decade or more after my radiation therapy is completed.
If you’re getting old, get yourself checked.
Then my doctor told me I had prostate cancer.
I was surprised. I had no symptoms. I could still pee like a horse. l spent no time at the urinal squeezing our a few drops at a time.
Things have changed.
Two weeks into radiation therapy, the side effects I was warned about are, one by one, becoming part of my daily life.
I now pee a few drops at a time, occasionally have bloody urine and I can relate to Hyman Roth’s statement, “I'd give four million just to be able to take a piss without it hurting.”
The good news, my doctors caught it early. According to them, I will live to debase myself again for another decade or more after my radiation therapy is completed.
If you’re getting old, get yourself checked.
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Good luck with your treatment. A friend just went thru it and he said the treatments were tough and left exhausted, but he got thru it and is back to his old self, working out, jogging, etc.
Hang in there!
I won’t ask how they’re hanging
I have known too many "healthy" people that hadn't seen a doctor in a decade or more because they were "fine" that finally went to a doctor when they started having some type of symptoms. For some of them it was too late by that point.
Fingers up the ass to check your prostate are a thing of the past. My condition was caught with a blood test.
I had no symptoms. Usually there are no symptoms in the early phases of prostate cancer. If you wait until you have symptoms, you’re taking a big health risk.
I haven’t posted much for a long while now. I’ve been busy. I retired from retirement and once again have more work than I know what to do with.
Later today I’m interviewing for more attorneys.
@Jimmy McNulty - I never finished the Amanda story because nothing ever happened. Her employer promoted her and made her the manager of one of their other offices. It is still in Houston but it’s over 50 miles from where she was living (around the corner and down the street from me).
So she wisely sold her home and moved about 50 miles closer to her new office.
It’s been almost 20 minutes since I tried to pee.
I’m gonna try again now.
I hope you are are well and safe
Please take a look at this book:
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-ris…
overview:
“In 1973, we urologists had prostate cancer about right, no screening, no radiation, and no radical surgery.
All cancers discovered were assumed to be metastatic from the get-go.
If any treatment was necessary, it was systemic hormone deprivation.
But, ten years later (1983 - 1987) radical surgery was revived without new evidence; ultrasound probes were miniaturized to fit in the rectum; and the PSA blood test was described as capable of finding new cancers but as lacking the specificity required for screening.
The whole world screened anyway
Money poured into U.S. hospitals and faculty practice plans.”
In any case take good care of yourself and remember “you are what you eat”
“Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food.” ~ Hippocrates
SJG
Figueroa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-scKQr9…
Jane - School of Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdWq4w8D…
Best of luck as you go through this journey.
I've been through this too, though on a different path; I chose surgery.
Know that recovery happens.