RE: [WW] Celebrating my fifteen years

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YES friend Terry, there most certainly IS a life beyond diagnosis of

prostate cancer. A hearty CONGRATULATIONS! on meeting one of your " PC "

goals of 15 years " living with " prostate cancer. And I strongly believe

this was at least partially achieved by your research and study of this

insidious disease in order to have at least some knowledgeable control of

your treatment.

Wishing you continued success in this regard so that you eventually reach my

nearing 19 years since diagnosis (three more months).....but just remember,

when you DO reach that 19 year achievement, I still intend to be around to

then say I've reached 23 years!

Your PC friend,

Chuck

Always as close as the other end of your computer to help address any

prostate cancer concerns.

" What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what

is woven into the lives of others. "

(Chuck) Maack/Prostate Cancer Advocate/Mentor

Wichita, Kansas Chapter, Us TOO

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[WW] Celebrating my fifteen years

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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

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