Cancer stuff

I’ve written a few times about having cancer, but nothing for a while. I think last update was when I was about to have treatment, which was back end of last year now. You can read about that here.

Anyway, I had treatment and then waited. I recuperated at home for a while, but on the whole it went pretty well. I took a few months of work, wore pyjamas a lot, drank many litres of water a day (to help flush the radiation of something like that)and waited. I had Brachytherapy, which is not particularly nasty on the body. It doesn’t make your hair fall out or any such thing – though I did shave my head because I thought it would be funny. Apparently I need to grow up because I did like seeing some peoples reactions.

Apparently I am also a massive dickhead.

Anyway, mostly I am just waiting and waiting now. I have tests every 6 months, and the numbers are looking good. I cannot go in an MRI machine now as my prostate is full of around 100 radioactive pellets which would be ripped out by the electromagnets – which sounds ghastly, right?

The long and short of it is that I don’t have to have any more treatment as it stands, which is fab news, and eventually I will hopefully hit the numbers I need to in my PSA tests and all will be declared well.

So mostly I don’t think about it much right now, other than to still want to remind all and sundry that if you are 50 and have a prostate then you need to get checked regularly. Seriously, just do it, it might well save your life or the life of someone you love…

Do it!