Any day above ground is a good one

One more day! One more treatment! I am chomping at the bit, as I am sooooooooooo over seeing doctors, having procedures done, and generally being poked and prodded not to mention being radiated. I was at the Dattoli Center today for my treatment and, as there always is, there were a number of men waiting for their treatment and/or appointment. I could hear some speak of which “treatment day” they were on as I had did when I was a Dattoli “rookie”. Those were the days when I too was wide eyed about what prostate cancer is all about. For me what it is all about is one more day, one more treatment, one day at a time. After which I travel back to Tampa and then up to Michigan to reunite with Paula and the critters. I can’t wait! I can’t stop smiling and I think that I am going to have to get a Grin-ectomy.

Just short post to let you all know that I am WOI (without internet) until the 4th. I am currently at home in Tampa to see some friends and our house has the net shut down. I didn’t expect to be here this summer so we shut it off. I currently am writing this from our local First Watch while I have breakfast. As some of you may have noticed Paula has not been posting much of late, this is purely a decision on her part. She tends to be very sensitive to things in general and somewhat obsessive about things that have caught her attention. She tends to take anything to the worst possible level. Since I have cancer, of course I will be dying from it soon….. Well her obsession has served us both very well in this situation. Very early on when I was just diagnosed she was tirelessly on the net getting the information we needed to make the treatment decisions that we eventually made. For that I am greatful as I was truly sailing on that river in Egypt…. de Nile. But since that time she has not stopped her research. I am here to tell you that once you have decided on a treatment path it really does not matter that you read EVERY article re: the prevention of PCa, you already have it! But she has. With all of the mailing list ( look on the blog roll on the right) that are out there for PCa you can easily become overwhelmed with just reading all of the post each day. This is what is going on with Paula. So she takes a break. She needs it.

On the news front in regards to me…. I received some good news this past week. As of next week I am off the androgen deprivation therapy. This is great news as I will hopefully be permanently off of these drugs. This means I should start shedding the weight I have been unable to loose and unfortunately I will start loosing the full head of hair that I have developed…. Oh well… But on the brighter side I can say goodby to those hot flashes. Whoope!!!