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Get to the hospital now...PET results

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May 16, 2025, 10:32 PM
onegeek
Get to the hospital now...PET results
Prayers for you.
May 16, 2025, 11:18 PM
tleddy
“ Getting old sucks.‘

At 84, I can agree! How old are you?


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May 17, 2025, 08:43 AM
pace40
Thanks for the prayers and well wishes all. They are much appreciated.

quote:
Originally posted by tleddy:
At 84, I can agree! How old are you?


84, good on you! I'm still 2 years from RMD's. Between CHF and cancer, I might still have to deal with distributions, but I doubt I'll make it to 84. but, hey, you never know.

Hard part is getting the docs to tell me what's going to kill me first. If heart failure is going to punch my ticket in 2 years, I'm certainly not going to spend a year of it chasing cancer around. We'll see what's up when all the testing is back. Until then, today is a pretty good day.


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Pace
May 17, 2025, 10:58 AM
ZSMICHAEL
quote:
Hard part is getting the docs to tell me what's going to kill me first. If heart failure is going to punch my ticket in 2 years, I'm certainly not going to spend a year of it chasing cancer around. We'll see what's up when all the testing is back. Until then, today is a pretty good day.

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That is because they really dont know. The PET scan will yield more information.
June 09, 2025, 07:59 AM
pace40
Actually, pretty surprised they posted this before my Dr saw it. I won't bore you with the whole thing, but the summary is:

Impression:

> Extensive PSMA activity within the prostate gland, consistent with newly diagnosed prostate carcinoma.

> PSMA avid metastatic lymphadenopathy in the pelvis, retroperitoneum, and mediastinum.

> PSMA avid osseous metastasis in the L5 vertebral body.

>Circumferential bladder wall thickening. 2.4 cm nonavid lymph node anterior to the bladder, nonspecific.. Recommend correlation with urinalysis.


They should have just written "You're Fucked" in big red letters on top. Looks like I'll be playing radiology Whack-a-Mole for a while.


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Pace
June 09, 2025, 10:10 AM
BOATTRASH1
Damn. Sorry to see this latest post. My
prayers are with you in this fight.
June 11, 2025, 12:44 AM
sjtill
Pace, I’m very sorry to hear those results.


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June 11, 2025, 12:28 PM
pace40
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Thaks BT1, thanks Doc. My urologist said that since I fully expected to be dead from CHF by now, he would do his very best to keep me alive so heart failure could kill me instead of cancer.

Started doublet hormone therapy yesterday (Orgovyx and Nubequa) and radiation oncology is waiting for insurance approval to schedule. No mention of chemo yet but that may very well change once oncology sees the scan.


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Pace
June 11, 2025, 12:35 PM
kkina
I thought I was having a rough time. Hope and prayers for you.



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"Pen & Sword as one."
June 11, 2025, 12:49 PM
pace40
quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
I thought I was having a rough time.


Uhhhhhhhh...you are! I haven't gotten to the hard part yet. I still feel fine. How goes the infusion?
And thanks for the prayers.


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Pace
June 11, 2025, 04:37 PM
kkina
Just returned from the clinic. Fingers are already tingling (chemo-induced neuropathy). The least of my worries in the coming weeks.



ACCU-STRUT FOR MINI-14
"Pen & Sword as one."
June 11, 2025, 06:26 PM
hurstolds1
Prayers for you Pace.