The October Roller Coaster

[tom67inMA]

My latest blog post. Spoiler alert: Life on cabazitaxel isn't nearly so bad as I had feared. Will it work? Don't know, but recent history shows that if I'm pessimistic about something, it makes for a lot of wasted emotional energy if it turns out that I was wrong.

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[SPEEDYX]

You spoiled it I was watching that movie for Halloween night!!!...Final Destination 48..[October Roller Coaster Of Death]..The rebirth of the Cyclone in Coney Island...by the way nice pics!!!...Fight On!!

[Maleko808]

Read your blog. I get the whole whats happening next because we all were pretty much wired to look ahead. Thats hard to shake. For me I'm just counting today's. Give me 365 today's and thats a year. Give me 3652 today's and thats a decade, and so forth. Hang in there. I'm pulling for ya(and all of us on this site).

[timotur]

Nice blog, especially the part about trying not to cling too much to hopes and fears. Thanks for the insight on the liver biopsy too. Cheers and hopes for you. - T

[GoBucks]

Excellent blog post-even better than usual. I have only been to Vermont once (to ski) and always wanted to go back during the Fall colors. Never have-I am a failure, but your descriptions make we want to go again. Happy anniversary. STAY OFF THE LADDER!

[tom67inMA in reply to GoBucks]

Vermont is only a 2 hour drive for us, easy! There's lots of other scenic areas of the country, most of which I've never been to.

[MateoBeach]

Most things I worry about don’t end up happening. So that proves that my worry protects me from those things. 🤷‍♂️😆😆😆

[tom67inMA in reply to MateoBeach]

I've found my worrying isn't creative enough. When I get bad news, it's usually worse than anything I worried about.

[Longterm101]

I saw where your PSA rose to .03 and your scans showed disease progression

Did you have a PSMA scan. I’m suprised the scans picked it up at low of a PSA

[tom67inMA in reply to Longterm101]

Just a CT scan. Neuroendocrine cancer doesn't put out any PSA, and my intraductal carcinoma may not put out much either. See my above reply about bad news exceeding my worst fears

That said, since stopping abiraterone my PSA jumped to 0.16.

[monte1111]

Nice pictures. Always like pictures. I'm sure j-o-h-n has a trunk load of sex toys. Beware of Greeks bearing gifts.

[Hidden]

Pessimism is a deadly trap .. good to realize ..I thought that I was a goner over five years ago .. and my first three years I spent my limited energies negatively ..waste of time .. Good luck on this treatment ..🏋🏽‍♂️

[tom67inMA in reply to Hidden]

You've mentioned your struggles your first several years with the disease before. It's been a valuable lesson to me and I'm sure to others here. Thanks for sharing!

[Hidden in reply to tom67inMA]

Stage#4 psychology is rough all the way through ... I try not to think in future terms much.. myself . I hope that you can push pc down for a good long while .. keep swinging 💪🏼