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I would have thought you would have said a reputation to keep down Jon, but I think we all got it!Easy now, bro. Will! I have a reputation to keep up
Well up yours then!
Yeah, he's reached to me too. I think he's more of Prime Example.
I would have thought you would have said a reputation to keep down Jon, but I think we all got it!
I guess I'll have to screw up the trim on the other or drop it and have to reorder.
I hear you on that brother. I'm always feeling more confident when the bar is set so low it's more of a tripping hazard...and even then I frequently need a good running start to clear it!
I too had a diligent urologist who had been keeping an eye on my PSA and when things started changing, he did several biopsies over a year period until they found definitive signs of cancer at age 49. I was offered various radiation treatments as being "less invasive", but when I found out that they all caused so much scaring that it made any kind of follow-up surgery impossible if the cancer came back, I opted for a radical prostatectomy.
Unfortunately, I can verify that as being true. I went to one of the best surgeons at University of Michigan, but still wound up with permanent ED. They started the robotic surgery about 6 months after I had the conventional one. I tried some of the ED "treatments" they offered me, but they all had bad enough side effects that sex was about the last thing I wanted. They ran the gamut from the little blue pills that gave me raging 3 day migraines, tell them that it works out to be cheaper for them to pay for treating the cases of cancer that do occur, than it would be to pay for all that additional testing. Yeah, I'm cynical. Lack of sex can do that to you.
Our H.S. Band wore white shoes. Our conductor said that if we were behind a horse unit in a parade to stay in file. We asked if he was gonna clean our shoes. End of discussion.I hear you on that brother. I'm always feeling more confident when the bar is set so low it's more of a tripping hazard...and even then I frequently need a good running start to clear it!
On the window thing, I simply don't like doing two shows a day, and I never follow horse acts in a parade. On the first one I think doing one thing well beat doing multiple things poorly. There's always tomorrow and if the world ends tonight, one extra window isn't going to mean much one way or the other. On that second thing, with all due respect to agedhorse, I think we all know the perils there.
I was diagnosed in 2014. My urologist at the time tried to talk me into those radiation seeds. I investigated the other types of treatment, including proton radiation. In the end I went with the traditional "hands on" surgery with the supposed "guru" of the art in the area. All was good for 2 years, then had to follow up with radiation "salvage" treatments in 2016. Thankfully I didn't gain any additional side effects from the radiation, but ED & occasional leaking have been the reality since the surgery. It's worse after a couple of beers, so I limit my intake significantly. I just passed the 2 year mark after radiation. So far, so good.I too had a diligent urologist who had been keeping an eye on my PSA and when things started changing, he did several biopsies over a year period until they found definitive signs of cancer at age 49. I was offered various radiation treatments as being "less invasive", but when I found out that they all caused so much scaring that it made any kind of follow-up surgery impossible if the cancer came back, I opted for a radical prostatectomy.
Unfortunately, I can verify that as being true. I went to one of the best surgeons at University of Michigan, but still wound up with permanent ED. They started the robotic surgery about 6 months after I had the conventional one. I tried some of the ED "treatments" they offered me, but they all had bad enough side effects that sex was about the last thing I wanted. They ran the gamut from the little blue pills that gave me raging 3 day migraines, to the self administered injections where you never want to be poked with a needle. When they told me that they could implant a tiny manual pump in my scrotum that could be pressed repeatedly to pump it up, I said no thanks and left it at that. Yeah, I could just picture it. "Not yet honey, I'm still trying to pump it up!"
Probably because the insurance companies have some actuarial tables that tell them that it works out to be cheaper for them to pay for treating the cases of cancer that do occur, than it would be to pay for all that additional testing. Yeah, I'm cynical. Lack of sex can do that to you.
I second that emotion.Happy Thanksgiving, GOFs! I'm truly thankful for this warm, supportive group of human beings!
Thank you, TB Mods, for preserving the GOFs thread!
I hope everyone remembered to set your scales back 15# last night.
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