As a matter of fact, at this very moment my father is in a hospital, waiting for his prostate to be removed. It is very large and so they will probably not do the procedure via the urethra, they will open him up. My only concern is that he has a pacemaker and he is 77 years old.

His PSA is 5.4. I talked to the doctor about that and quoting his exact words "0 to 4 is normal, 4 to 10 makes us more careful, and at 10 and more we are suspicious. Suspicious DOES NOT mean there is cancer involved, we just look on the matter more carefully."

I wish you luck Tom, but I have to aggree with the others here that these things are curable. My prayers are for you.

As for the blue pills and their side effects, I posted a joke on the Bar some days ago, and I will repost it here, hoping it'll make you laugh:

A young man enters a pharmacy, and asks the middle aged lady behind the counter,
"Can I talk to the pharmacist please?"
"Go ahead" she says, "I am the pharmacist"
The guy hesitates for a moment, and says "..errm no, thanks, I think I'll better go"

The woman says "Wait, you can talk to me, we see and hear all sorts of things every day, come on, don't be shy"

"Ok" says the guy, "I have this problem, whenever it gets up (you know what) it stays up for hours on end, no matter what I do... can you give me something for that?"

The woman disappears in the back of the shop and returns 5 minutes later.

"I had to talk about it with my sister" she says, "we can give you $2000 in cash and one third of the pharmacy, is that enough?"


Hoping for a quick recovery,
Theodore