Last time I wrote about Zack, he had been about to go for his seed implantation. That was about a month ago. So I thought I should check up on him.
Here was his email response: “Urgency. Frequency: Those were terms I thought I understood – until now!”
I phoned to get a better view of things.
While Zack was in no pain, the warnings about... Read more
As everyone reading my blog—and this website—knows, the PSA test has not been the best diagnostic test ever invented. It can mislead both men with cancer and men who don’t have cancer. Since the PSA can rise and fall, and since different labs may give different readings, the PSA has had both false negatives and false positives.This can... Read more
According to the results of the National Cancer Awareness Survey, 60 percent of Americans are concerned they might be at risk for cancer. Twenty-eight percent of those surveyed were afraid of getting prostate cancer. When you take into account that only half of those surveyed were men, that’s like saying that 56% of men are afraid of getting... Read more
At the very beginning of these essays, I wrote about finding a psychotherapist if any of the following fears affected you (as a man with prostate cancer):
I’m going to die.
I’m going to be impotent.
My wife (partner) is going to leave me.
I’m going to be incontinent.
I’m going to be in pain.
But this really ignored the other side of the... Read more
I had lunch with Zack yesterday. In ten days, he’ll get his seed implantation (brachytherapy); he’s been having some anxiety about it, but nothing he can’t handle. The hormone shot he had in July gave him a diminution in sex drive, and I thought that would make a good reason to revisit the whole question of seed implantation.
If you go... Read more
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