Rich's Journey with Prostate Cancer

Surgery recovery was about a month and I am in decent shape to that seemed like a long time. Urinary recovery continues after 5 months but is getting progressively better. Erection recovery isn't going well and my doctor and I are moving on to phase 2 of options to improve the situation.

I was expecting something totally different than cancer when I went into my doctors office for the results of my biopsy. When he said cancer I almost fell over

It has taken 5 months to get urinary leakage down to almost but not quite zero. Still it is better than cancer!

58 y/o and virtually no erections post surgery. Low dose Cialis (5mg) per day didn't help. Supplementing that with 10 mg tabs didn't help. Now we are on to medication injections.

I went to see a urologist first. He said to do the surgery. Then I went to a Radiation Ongologist. He also said to do the surgery in my particular situation which was fairly early cancer probably contained in my prostate. Plus and this was the big thing that I had long term difficulty urinating. He said radiation would make my urinary problems worse for potentially a year or more.

After recovery from the actual surgery and the first 0 PSA my wife and I took a trip around the western U.S. It helped me a lot because I saw that there could be life after cancer