Miracles Do Happen

[duckman52]

We find out one day after being at the doctor for a check up that we have cancer. We know its from the prostate but not sure what that all really means. The Doctor tells us we have what they call a high grade aggressive type of cancer. After biopsy he says that it is a Jackie Gleason 9, with 12 positive cores of 12, perineural invasion present. Were not quite sure what to make of all this but we do know so far that this might not be to good. We think of our family our fiends and just how all of this is going to affect our time left with the ones we love. Our Doctor schedules us for further procedures of MRI, CTS and BONE scans and for some of us its good news and some not so much, they find that the cancer has moved from the prostate to other areas of our domain, maybe the hip, or tail bone or the liver or who knows where else. What next, sit down with your Doctor and discuss what is our point of attack? We have started to read quite a bit about this prostate cancer and as far as we can tell it doesn't seem like there is any definitive answers. I can go with the Robot Radical Prostatechetomy, who new they let Robots in surgery room, but that is no good for some because the cancer has already left the house and is hitchhiking to better places, it wants to live some where else, what to do? Besides surgery can cause permanent limp Johnson syndrome and we here you may pee all over your self for a while. Another option is hormone shot that basicly gives me a tenor voice and I don't have to worry about shaving and my wife wont bother me for sex any more, some girls can become pretty friskie in our later years, of course some of us are only in there 40s, later years my fanny, Im in my prime. Than theres chemotherapy and a whole gambit of other options, I will take 2 of those to go! After we decide what it is were going to do and we start doing it days, months and a year or two goes by and we find that we are doing fairly well and we have found a whole new group of friends that up until diagnoses we never knew and would have never known. They are from all walks of life and have something in common that we relate to, Prostate Cancer. They have an uncanny way of making a person feel like everything will be ok one way or another. When I was twenty I found out I had Hepatitus C, actually did not find out till 40 years old, but concocted at 20. We tried to cure of it 3 times, first year 48 weeks of interferon and no luck. My second try a year or so later was for 48 weeks of Interferon with Peg, no luck. The last year of 48 weeks of interferon with peg and they raised the values of interferon 20x, still no luck, felt like I was dead. Got feeling better and 10 years later I was at Doctor for a check up and out of no where he asked if I would like to try a New drug for my Hep C it would not cost me a thing. I said why not! After 28 weeks of therapy and what would have cost 250,000.00 dollars I showed no sign of the virus!!!!! Miracles do Happen. Peace.

[GoBucks]

Lol Jackie Gleason.

[j-o-h-n]

Now you're cooking.... and thanks for the laughs... I always wondered why they named it after Jackie Gleason and then I remembered his 'AND AWAY WE GO'...cause we are going and that's for damn sure.

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 01/19/2019 12:23 AM EST

[Schwah]

Your post was really well written. I was sad , and worried and laughing all at the same time. The Jackie Gleason one is one many of us will steal I am sure. Hope you didn’t file a patent on that one Brutha. Best of luck in your treatment. Looking forward to your next post. A smile is still a great healer of all that is bad.

Schwah

[grahaminator63]

You sure know how to capture the crazy journey. We can all relate. Thanks for the uplifting post, Miracles do happen every day, even with cancer.

I remember the Jackie Gleason sketch with Norton teaching him how to play golf, Jackie told Norton to address the ball in which Norton tipped his hat and said, “Hello ball.”

Stay strong through the fight and keep the miracles going!

[Dayatatime]

I don't know if it's more of a generation thing with the older guys relying on only their doctors and not spending much time on the net but it does seem like there are more guys than ever joining the group on the younger side. This disease in it's advanced form is devastating to all but getting it when you have 30 or 40 years left to live is a lot to deal with. We are still working, parenting, still active sexually, still sharp in our thinking and to watch our masculine bodies fade when we are only just beginning middle age is disheartening. What took us 40 + years to achieve is immediately stripped from us with not one big kick but shot in the ass. Our midlife crises is now surviving another 10 years and praying for 20. Nice read duckman52.

Ron

[j-o-h-n in reply to Dayatatime]

My thoughts exactly about the younger and younger men posting here. Nothing funny about that...

Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.

j-o-h-n Saturday 01/19/2019 6:35 PM EST

[Currumpaw]

Don't expect too many more miracles. Miracles aren't profitable.

Goldman Sachs to Biotech: Don't Cure Cancer • Moss Reports

mossreports.com/goldman-sac...

Google that.

Isn't that what ---just might---- have been happening for years?

Think about the power players and lobbyists in DC.

Currumpaw

[monte1111]

You had me at Jackie Gleason 9.

[JimVanHorn]

Hello Mr. Duckman, When I started in 2007 I had no medical insurance, however, I was 63 years old. So they wanted 42 radiations and the hospitals all charged $130,000. My urologist had a cancer clinic with the same machine (only newer) who charged me only what Medicare paid them, $30,000.! I went to a cancer clinic instead of a single doctor (oncologist) and three years later they found that my cancer had metastasized. But then I had Medicare!! So they wanted 30 more radiations and that was only $42.00. I started Lupron injections every 3 months for 6 1/2 years and now I am cancer free. So you need insurance coverage for sure and ask several doctors or their opinion before you do anything else. And above every thing else ask plenty of questions and just keep truckin'.