It's Gone!

Great news today!

Went to the Dr. to get my pathology report and it showed all of the cancer was taken out, there were no positive margins.

In other words; there was no cancer from the prostate that was not contained in the capsule that he took out.

I started out as a stage T1 because they found it by doing a biopsy and otherwise wouldn’t have known it was there.

I went to a stage T2 when the second urologist felt something on the prostate that may or may not be contained in the prostate.

I went to a stage T3 after they took it out they discovered that it did extend past the prostate.

(See Diagrams)

That’s where the difference between a good surgeon and great surgeon comes in.

My Dr. said that he saw something that looked suspicious so he cut around it and took a little more tissue out.

Thank God he did.  Other surgeons may not have done so and I would be left with prostate cancer still in me.

It’s been a long week and I am physically and mentally exhausted.

Physically I’m still feeling better every day.

Dr. says no running for 6 weeks.

Not going to push it.

When I asked about returning to work he looked at me and said not to even worry about it.  It’s not worth going back to work a week too soon and cause irreversible damage for the rest of my life.

In the words of Martin Luther King Jr:

FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST; THANK GOD ALMIGHTY I'M FREE (of cancer) AT LAST!

I’ll post again soon but I just wanted to get the basic info out.