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Sep 11, 2013 21:52

Friday marks the beginning of my second life. At least, that's the way I'm treating it.

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kimmykinz September 13 2013, 00:27:40 UTC
Bravo! It can be a painful process to realize a big change is needed. Best of luck!

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wood_artist September 13 2013, 00:55:26 UTC
Unfortunately, the future is marred with a problem. On Tuesday, after I returned to having medical coverage, I saw the doctor. The good is that I'll be back on my hypertension meds. The bad news is that my PSA has risen. It's not at the usual danger mark, but given I'm not supposed to have a prostate, it should be darn near zero. Back the specialist, but I'm afraid this spells trouble. We shall see in a couple of weeks I guess.

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kimmykinz September 13 2013, 01:19:51 UTC
Hmm, interesting. What can they do for it? A CT scan or something to see what's going on? I agree, that is worrisome :-/ Keep us updated!

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wood_artist September 17 2013, 07:06:35 UTC
At this point I don't know yet. I have an appointment in a couple weeks and I'll likely find out more then. At the risk of assuming I would guess they could do a scan to see if they can find the "growth" but I'm not sure where we go from there. Way back when I was told that surgery was more or less not an option once the treatment I chose was over. The prostate should be all dead scar tissue, and I guess it's hard to work with that and leave anything else functioning. However, I would guess that if a new growth was on the outside of the existing organ it might be possible to go in and cut it out. However, that's all guesswork on my part, so...we'll see.

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andi_mom2deetnj September 13 2013, 01:11:14 UTC
It's been forever since I've been on LJ! You know we are all in your corner and want you to be your healthy, snarky self, Poobah.

((((hugs))))

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