Most prostate cancer, if detected early, can be treated and cured. If the cancer has spread, it is typically incurable and symptoms are just managed with hope of some extra time and quality of life.
Guys, please get checked regularly. If your Dr doesn’t mention testing, insist on it. If something just doesn’t feel right, trust that.
Our lives have been turned upside down and inside out with a shocking diagnosis a few weeks ago. If routine testing had been the norm, we may have not have had to face what now lies ahead.
He is not only my husband and best friend, he is my love, my rock, and so much more. I am trying to be strong for him as I am falling apart. I am trying to be strong, but I feel broken. I know I will get through this, but that I will be carrying on without him at some point. I am heartbroken.
Tests, more tests, doctors and specialists, treatment options, monitoring, information, decisions. It’s overwhelming. The healthcare professionals snd the team coordinating care have been amazing, but they can’t fix this.
It feels strange typing this out to people I have never met, but if it helps anyone to not end up where we find ourselves now that would be a good thing.
If you are a GP or other health care provider and a patient comes to you with a general feeling something is wrong, don’t be dismissive when they keep coming back. Don’t make assumptions, and run some damn tests.
