A fallen warrior, Rod May you RIP!
Rod Gilbert : A fallen warrior, Rod May... - Advanced Prostate...
Rod Gilbert
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Rip 🙏🕊🕊🕊
fmenninger in reply to
U still playing ice hockey?
in reply to fmenninger
Not me? I Never even learned to skate that well . Dear friend , after over 3 years reading these pages I just realized how many warriors we have lost ? It’s a lot to take in brother .I can’t count them all . No man can out run an APC gone bad . APC or the heart will get us all . Rest In Peace to all brothers gone by. What a vast problem cancer is? Pluck the day!
Canoehead in reply to
Those who visit here regularly, even if they don’t post often, can’t help but get a sense of community with the other regular members. That’s happened to me in the 3.5 years I’ve been here, and there is something very comforting in that. But not only do we help and support each other, we also watch our friends die, and that is heartbreaking. I have never met any of you, but I like and even love many of the people here. And the losses this year have seemed especially awful to me. This site is hard, and my wife has long since gotten past asking me why I’m crying as I read and type on my iPad.
We need a cure. Until that day I will pray for everyone here, I will support everyone here, and I will mourn the tragic passing of every brother.
in reply to Canoehead
You nailed it on the “Canoehead”! Well said! ✌️💪
Makes me sad 😞 may he Rest In Peace.
Sorry to hear of his passing.
May he Rest In Peace
What a class act he was, and very smooth. Keep on skating.
Rod Gilbert’s Prostate Cancer Story
This is Rod Gilbert, Hall of Famer, Hockey Player. A drastic event occurred when I was a little bit younger. That the news that my dad was admitted in the hospital, had prostate cancer. So, immediately I went to Montreal and visited him.
For the next two years, he was in hell. He was suffering. It was uncontrollable, not operable. So, for the following two years I frequently went to Montreal.
As he admitted, he had never had it checked or never had the good fortune to prevent it or do something about it. And now it had spread out of the capsule into his lymph nodes and his bones. And it was just a matter of time. So, with great disappointment, he passed. And I promised myself it would not happen to me.
When I did come back to New York, I would regularly get checked. A really good friend of mine, David Coke had made a contribution to Cornell Presbyterian. He has a department and had donated a hundred million dollars, and had named Dr Scardino as head for prostate cancer. So, I called his office. We were good friends for many years and I had gotten in to see Dr Scardino.
He said, “Well, what’s your Gleason Score, what is this, let me review your test…” I said, “Doc, you have to take it totally out.” He said, “Dr Zaleski here maybe could give you some radiation, and would you like to meet with him?” I said, “Absolutely. If it was your dad, Dr Scardino, he’s the chairman of prostate cancer research there, what would you do?” He said, “Well, let’s talk to Dr Zaleski.” Dr. Zaleski had taken care of Mayor Guiliani and had operated on him with a method of using some seeds to kill the cancer, injected 90 seeds. And then 28 radiation treatments after that. I agreed to do that. That pleased me a lot. And Dr Scardino guaranteed me that after that treatment, if by any chance the cancer came back, that we could remove the tumor, or the cancer, remove the prostate.
So, I went to get the operation of inserting the seeds and the radiation. And it’s been seven years that I’m cancer free with a PSA of 02.
So, my advice is to get checked early, and possibly get a second opinion because it’s quite frequent that people do have cancer in their prostate. It’s very slow growing, but at the same time if they require treatments, if they catch it early enough, which I’m trying to advise you, and promote the fact that if you detect it early, it’s curable at a very high rate, in the 90 percent rates.
So, please, I implore it upon you to get early checkups. Sometimes even if your PSA, which is only one method of possible detecting it, you ask your urologist what other sure, sure results that would tell you exactly what you have. So, I want you to take this advice and support a cure for prostate cancer and certainly early detection.
Thanks for sharing - I remember him well - NYRs
in reply to fmenninger
Bravo for you too . 7 yrs and 17 more to go! I waited 7ntil I couldn’t pee to go to a uro . Even though m6 father had this I didn’t check . Thought myself invincible . Early detection is everything! 👏👏
God bless RIP
May he rest in peace
RIP
😢. Now you can rest 🙏🙏🙏
Still playing myself. ADT certainly takes its toll on ones top speed. Need to rely more on adrenaline, pride, and hockey smarts.
I concur as the first thing that goes are your legs!
Oh and I forgot, hooking has become an art form too!
Ha ha
Sorry that anyone has to leave this Earth. Goodbye Mr. Ranger
in reply to monte1111
Bezos left but then he came back
Boywonder56 in reply to
Lmao......hey look j.o.h.n......has been scene around.....heard he's ben in the catskills for the summer had some new schtik....
in reply to Boywonder56
He was definitely in the forest and hills. I'm glad to see him posting again. And you, keep swinging that hammer...the alternative stinks.
Boywonder56 in reply to
Ty tt
monte1111 in reply to
Or was that a Musk robot?
Willydad in reply to
Hahahahaha!!!
Has
He's finally out of the penalty box.....God Bless him and his family and friends...
Good Luck, Good Health and Good Humor.
j-o-h-n Tuesday 08/24/2021 10:33 PM DST
