Post by KC on Jun 17, 2014 13:39:34 GMT -8
Hi,
I started posting here at the beginning of 2014 without properly introducing myself...and so I'd like to do that now.
My case history can be found in the link, below, in my "signature"...a 1-page case history is a PCAF "Best Practice," and I would encourage everyone here to create their own.
I was diagnosed five years ago at age 49 with an intermediate-risk case of PC. It was "intermediate" because one of the positive biopsy cores was 3+4. If I knew now what I knew then, I would NOT have sought immediate treatment. I hope that I can share some of my learnings with others with my own "pay-it-forward" approach. (If you want to learn a little more about "paying-it-forward," read what I posted at the bottom of the "sticky" thread in the "Main" board, titled "Hello and 'Welcome!' READ ME FIRST." It's quite an interesting bit of US history.)
I have had consistently undetectable PSA readings since surgery, as expected for someone like myself at the low-end of intermediate-risk PC.
I live outside Chicago, and enjoy boating as frequently as I can in the warmer months. I have experienced being a primary caregiver when my wife was diagnosed with fatal kidney cancer which lasted 15-months. In the years since then, I have been blessed to fall in love again and have recently re-married (I'm using a "altered" photo from my wedding as my PCAF image). I have two kids in their early-20's.
KC
I started posting here at the beginning of 2014 without properly introducing myself...and so I'd like to do that now.
My case history can be found in the link, below, in my "signature"...a 1-page case history is a PCAF "Best Practice," and I would encourage everyone here to create their own.
I was diagnosed five years ago at age 49 with an intermediate-risk case of PC. It was "intermediate" because one of the positive biopsy cores was 3+4. If I knew now what I knew then, I would NOT have sought immediate treatment. I hope that I can share some of my learnings with others with my own "pay-it-forward" approach. (If you want to learn a little more about "paying-it-forward," read what I posted at the bottom of the "sticky" thread in the "Main" board, titled "Hello and 'Welcome!' READ ME FIRST." It's quite an interesting bit of US history.)
I have had consistently undetectable PSA readings since surgery, as expected for someone like myself at the low-end of intermediate-risk PC.
I live outside Chicago, and enjoy boating as frequently as I can in the warmer months. I have experienced being a primary caregiver when my wife was diagnosed with fatal kidney cancer which lasted 15-months. In the years since then, I have been blessed to fall in love again and have recently re-married (I'm using a "altered" photo from my wedding as my PCAF image). I have two kids in their early-20's.
KC