Thank you. It’s a very worrying time. We’ve known about the issue since early January so have time to adjust to the new normal, even though we don’t know the full picture yet, we have a fairly good idea of what will probably happen next re treatment. The advice I would have given myself back in January…..
Don’t google, much of the information is out of date and incorrect. ChatGPT is fine if you want to ‘translate’ medical terminology in to English, such as blood results and numbers, staging, but don’t rely on it. The lovely people on either MacMillan or ProstateCancerUk are much better sources of information as they have been there and have the t-shirt.
Try not to catastrophise, easier said than done, but it’s easy to automatically go to the worse case scenario, I still do sometimes, be realistic but optimistic.
One wise person on one of the sites said “don’t waste today worrying about tomorrow “, very true, none of us know what might happen tomorrow.
live and enjoy today, the usual simple pleasures of time in the garden or an evening with friends is a great distraction.
Depending on your partners feelings, don’t be afraid to tell people, it’s not something that needs to be hidden away.
Send off for the Prostate Cancer Uk ‘toolkit’, it’s a free resource that explains how it’s diagnosed and different treatment options etc in really clear understandable language. You’ll find it in the shop area of the website.
Finally, remember that although there are no good cancers, prostate cancer is a very treatable one, even men with locally advanced disease such as my husband, with treatment usually have a good chance of being here in five or ten years time, it may not be curable (this depends on the stage of the cancer and how they react to treatments) but it’s very treatable and manageable for many many years.
Come back here any time for a chat.