Some friends who have been following my adventures with prostate cancer will know that I haven't had a measurable PSA test for three years. That is, until three months ago, when it re-appeared at 0.2, the lowest measurable reading you can get. We didn't broadcast that a whole lot at the time. We thought it best to wait and see for another three months. But. given my two previous lively resurgences, we had some reason to expect that this might be the beginning of another steady rise.
However, this week's reading is exactly the same: 0.2. It seems that the combined therapy of Zoladex inplants and daily Casodex tabs are continuing to starve the cancer. When you're ticking off your life by three-monthly tests, this is pretty encouraging.
But, of course, we actually should be ticking off our lives day by day, not quarter by quarter. We should be making the most of every day, every moment, For we never know what lies around the corner.
Today we will live for today. Well, perhaps we had better live for next Sunday, since I have one of my infrequent appearances as worship leader... And there is the parish newsletter... And Bev keeps reminding me about the shabby state of the garden... And... oh, heck, let's get out in the sunshine with a book...
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I am thrilled that you can still look at the future so positively and your immediate future is so good healthwise. I hate it when a friend is diagnosed with cancer of any sort.
ReplyDeleteI am sad at this time because another friend died going home from church in a head on collision, through no fault of their own.
Living can throw some very curly questions at times.
Live as if there is no tomorrow.
Farmercoby.