DandJofAZ

[DandJofAZ]

Well last blood test up 239% so aPca is starting to take off..  Na-f18 Scans in Spokane showed bone lesion....todays scan in Sand Point showed same lesion on CT scan, so now have to find RO who can kill my right ischial tuberosity lesion....  Ain't that a nice word for your pelvic sitz bone.   

[Dogshirt]

I only speak English, but it doesn't sound very good. Hoping that my translating skills are fault.

[DandJofAZ]

Nope, just means my bone cancer is back in my sitz bone... Front lower pelvis.  That's a little bit more like normal language.

[Hanshi]

Well, let's get rid of that lesion, Doug.  What does this mean as far as any treatment prescribed?

[DandJofAZ]

Current $12,000 per month pills I have been on have failed.  Hope we can zap bone and kill it for a while.  More blood tests and start bone strengthening treatments on Tue. 

[Hanshi]

Current $12,000 per month pills I have been on have failed.  Hope we can zap bone and kill it for a while.  More blood tests and start bone strengthening treatments on Tue.

Man oh man, Doug!  Lets get this taken care of once and for all!  This stuff needs to get zapped away asap.  We're all pulling for you and we just have to get you back in fighting shape before the season starts.  My thoughts and wishes are for a great outcome.

[Red Badger]

Prayers are always up from this lodge

[DandJofAZ]

   Full week of high energy radiation to bone mets starting next Monday.  Hope to zap them out of existence and get a few more years out of this old body.  Going shooting with my 5 yr old grandson today... He really loves to shoot and is pretty good at it... Life is still good and I need to enjoy it for as long as I can.  After all,  I am only 71 and should have years to go before I have to feel old.
Doug

[Hanshi]

Yes, you are young and I even consider myself to be young.  I'll be 75 next month - so I am told, but being a baby when I was born I could have been lied to.  Even my name could have been a lie, and likely is, and I believe my real name is Chance McCall.....or something sounding like it's a character from a William Faulkner novel. 

[DandJofAZ]

Long break.  Red Hawk sent a new feather since the last one shattered on the CT room floor after it took the scan that confirmed my new lessons (2)/  Treatment with radiation in June/July seem to have been successful.  PSA leveled off and dropping after steep climb.  Provenge immunotherapy in Aug/Sept and PSA continuing to drop, now 5 months in a row.  Life Is Good. 

[Hanshi]

That's more like it, Doug, and is what I was hoping for you.

[Patocazador]

I'm glad to hear that. Keep on keeping on. 

[graybear]

Glad to hear you're doing better.

[russell shaffer]

I am sorry to have to say that my brother Doug passed on January 16.  He is missed. 

[graybear]

Yes, he will be. No more pain though.