Just got scoped top to bottom. Hope I never have that great experience again. .Dr. told me only one small polyp but said very little about the esophageal scoping other than I would have to be stretched again in about 3 months because of swallowing problem.
Turns out I have a bunch of ulcers around my valve. He said nothing because he thought it was cancer and I would not last long. He was dead wrong. All benign and just cut them out and on pills to lower acid production.. Three months and we go through the esophageal scope and stretch again when he will cut out more of the ulcerated area and stretch me some more so I can eat normally again.
Still in remission with Apca and last set of tests showed me undetectable for first time and all bones with no activity, just scars from healing. Time for me to go pour a glass of wine and celebrate. Please join me, Not all that often we hear great news here..
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Salud Amigo ! First of many years undetectable is what I wish for you . Thanks for the great news . You have a great attitude.🌵
I also like an occasional drop or 3 of Cabernet Sauvignon, which is surprising because I went through period 2014 to 2019 when I found wine did not improve my moods, so I didn't drink a drop of alcohol for some years. But I like the way wine makes serious concerns look silly, and make an old man want company of someone female with equal ideological ideas that are just plain hilarious. Boy-oh-boy, old wymmin with a good sense of the ridiculous are are extremely rare are they not?
The old esophagus can give Enny Wunne quite a bitta trubbel in life, and I knew a lady once who had much trubbel with all her sphincters between her mouth and anus. Not mutch was done about it until her weight went down to 40Kg, and then docs stretched the heck out of offending valves in her plumbing, and she seemed to recover OK.
I'll need more Lu177 if I expect to celebrate that I have undetectable Psa.
But at least I am alive for more than 10 years after diagnosis.
It was Sunday here, so I went on a nice long cycle ride in cool conditions, 11C to 13C, for 3.5 hours and I managed 78km, excluding times I waited for a smoked salmon + avocardo + Philadelphia cheese roll + salad sitting in sunshine 22km from home and alone.
I got a coffee a bit further along. Nothing but blue skies, genteel winds, subtle sunshine, trees and ponds of water, occasional bird life and fine roads. What more wood Enny Wunne want?
So, not a bad day. I'd gladly pour a glass for you if you were here,
Its kilometres per hour. If I try real hard to average 25kph for 26km across town its only 15.6MPH average. I have a simple 'Cateye' cyclometer which records all my riding times not including having lunch. But during a 26km ride, there are maybe 15 times where I have to slow down to cross a road, stop at traffic lights, avoid ppl and their prams and kids and dogs, and runners et all, and all that means losing maybe 20 seconds each time while cyclometer does not stop recording my time, distance and speed. So if I had access to a dead flat road and no stops, I'd average higher speeds.
Long ago, if any man could average 25MPH or 40kph on a flat road for an hour on a flat road, and on a penny-farthing, he was a hero, and he left his mates behind who rode horses.
But in Tour De France the best men can average about 32.5MPH, or 52kph on a flat road. on my well ridden 26km course here there are a few hills up to 4%, enough to slow all cyclists down quite a lot. On very flat parts of my ride, I find myself sitting on about 30kph if there's no wind to hinder or assist me. I'l have a top speed of 44kph down a hill, and a minimum speed of uphill at 16kph.
TDF time trials have twice my average speed, and air resistance varies at speed difference squared, so while I might average 120W, some TDF freak athletes manage to average 350W. These guys are often only 60Kg, and can sit on bike with flat back, so they get along fast. In a bunch sprint, the best sprinters can develop 750W for a vital 5 seconds. That's 1 horse power.
If I could teach a horse to ride a specially made bicycle with 4 pedals, you might witness some remarkable speeds. Any crashes would be disasters, as they are in TDF when men go down hills at 100kph, and slip off roads in alpine race stages.
I've done 80kph down hill, and its a mix of high exhilaration, and fear of instant death,
and maybe needing fresh underpants at bottom of hill. Before I did a club race, I felt nervous, and I'd have to I empty my bowels 10 minutes before start of hard race in hilly territory. At 40yo, I was best when race distance was longest at 104km in hills where all those without endurance faded before I did.
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Dad's on his last few breathes. He's going to die today. Thank you to the community. 
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Orchiectomy Nov 2 , its not that bad
