Celebrating my fifteen years

[Guest guest]

Well, I made it. It is now 13 minutes past midnight

South African time and so technically I and say that I am almost a quarter of

an hour into my sixteenth year and have thus achieved my initial target of

fifteen years of survival.

How will I celebrate? Well, I’ve finished my

morning mail, so I’ll read the newspaper as soon as Anthea has finished

it. Then I’ll clip the hedge since it is a glorious sunny but cold day

here in our winter. I have to build a stand for the new freezer we bought, get

some more music onto my iPod Nano, continue reading my books about the history

of dentistry and the development of machine guns. Strange juxtaposition but it

is quite amusing to see how both books return again and again to the issue of

how slowly medical and military beliefs change even in the face of clear

evidence that they need to change being based on old data; while at the same

time showing how some of the old data was right when it was assembled!! Those

views seem to resonate somewhat with what I have learned over my journey so

far. And so my day will go.

Why the somewhat dull “celebration” –

and why share it with y’all? Well, what I’m really celebrating is

the ordinariness of life, the things I can do and the things I do which I thought

I would never do this far away from diagnosis. There IS a life after a prostate

cancer diagnosis.

All the best

Terry Herbert

in Melbourne Australia

Diagnosed ‘96: Age

54: Stage T2b: PSA 7.2: Gleason 7: No treatment. Jun '07 PSA 42.0 - Bony

Metastasis: Aug '07: Intermittent ADT: PSA 3.4 May '11

My

site is at www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

It is a tragedy of

the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know, and the less a man

knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. Joyce Carey

[Guest guest]

Go for 15 more, what the hell.

Cheers, bob

----- Forwarded Message -----To: prostatecancersupport Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:17 PMSubject: RE: Celebrating my fifteen years

Well said, Terry. Here's to many more years of the extraordinary ordinary.

/stephen

To: ProstateCancerSupport ; newdx@...; ww@...From: ghenesh_49@...Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:26:27 +1000Subject: Celebrating my fifteen years

Well, I made it. It is now 13 minutes past midnight South African time and so technically I and say that I am almost a quarter of an hour into my sixteenth year and have thus achieved my initial target of fifteen years of survival.

How will I celebrate? Well, I’ve finished my morning mail, so I’ll read the newspaper as soon as Anthea has finished it. Then I’ll clip the hedge since it is a glorious sunny but cold day here in our winter. I have to build a stand for the new freezer we bought, get some more music onto my iPod Nano, continue reading my books about the history of dentistry and the development of machine guns. Strange juxtaposition but it is quite amusing to see how both books return again and again to the issue of how slowly medical and military beliefs change even in the face of clear evidence that they need to change being based on old data; while at the same time showing how some of the old data was right when it was assembled!! Those views seem to resonate somewhat with what I have learned over my journey so far. And so my day will

go.

Why the somewhat dull “celebration†– and why share it with y’all? Well, what I’m really celebrating is the ordinariness of life, the things I can do and the things I do which I thought I would never do this far away from diagnosis. There IS a life after a prostate cancer diagnosis.

All the best

Terry Herbert

in Melbourne Australia

Diagnosed ‘96: Age 54: Stage T2b: PSA 7.2: Gleason 7: No treatment. Jun '07 PSA 42.0 - Bony Metastasis: Aug '07: Intermittent ADT: PSA 3.4 May '11

My site is at www.prostatecancerwatchfulwaiting.co.za

It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn’t know, and the less a man knows, the more sure he is that he knows everything. Joyce Carey