Its quite sad that no one else has chipped in to help Brydo.
Given that 1 in 8 males will develop prostate cancer, there are a lot of people on the forum that choose to keep quiet.
I find that in the older generarion, they say nothing about serious life threatening illness, it is just how they were brought up. People will attend their funeral and wonder what they died of….but they kept quiet throughout their illness. There is no shame having this dreadful disease. its not as if its the clap.
I tell every man and his dog about my illness.
Indeed, I have about 6 people who have said, after our conversation, they went to their doctor and had a PSA test. Only one had a problem and its being attended to.
I like that.
We had a strong Prostate cancer network meeting, indeed -when I first attended I thought I had walked into the wrong cancer group. There were more women than men.
When dealing with cancer, its your family, your support group that make a huge difference. I believe the spouse and family members have a more difficult time, they want to help.
When you have prostate cancer – you just got to get on with it.
The prostate treatments buy you time, to live as you normally would. 20 years ago it was different.
Kezo, your dad is doing well, they have the disease under control, I hope you are dealing with it OK.
BTW – the hormone treatment is brutal….the side effects occasionally turn you upside down.