Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (48593)	12/15/2017 1:30:42 AM
From: i-node	1 Recommendation Recommended By J_F_Shepard Respond to of 362202

>>Your wife's case is amazing.....my wife also broke her femur (the ball) and was in intense pain for several hours......they did the surgery that same night but only replaced the ball....dislocated twice on her in the next couple of weeks but has been great for the last 2 and a half years....no effects. I can't really imagine the ball popping out of that socket. That has to hurt like hell. It is, really amazing in my wife's case. My mom broke her hip many years ago and the emergency monitoring service called me. When I got to her house she was laying on the floor writhing in pain. No way she could get up. We waited on the ambulance to get there. In my wife's case, first thing I said is, "Did you break it?" and she said, "No, I think I pulled a muscle or something." It took her several minutes but she finally got on her feet. She walked on a cain for 2-3 days. She won't take pain meds other than Advil or Tylenol, which she did until she gave up and decided to go to the doctor. He showed me the xray and the ball was cracked right through the narrow part. The surgeon was great and did the replacement the following morning, a Saturday. But her recovery is impressive to me. When my mom broke hers she was in the hospital a month (but that was many years ago). My wife got on on the 3rd or 4th day. Joint replacement today is really impressive. A friend is having both knees replaced at the same time later this month. I can't even imagine it. >>The link I sent you suggests that you have a very low risk cancer....I would definitely get a 2nd opinion preferably from a big city specialist..... I have 3 friends with prostate cancer....2 took the seed implants and 1 did nothing at all he was in his early 70's and his doc told him he would probably out live it.... Yeah, the first thing you do when you get diagnosed is start reading about the options and probability and all that. What I have is considered low risk. There has even been talk of considering a 6=(3+3) Gleasons as not cancer at all. However, my PSA had doubled two years in a row which is a velocity that is suggestive. One of the problems is the biopsy process, which involves jabbing a dozen coring needles about 1mm each into the prostate to cut out a core that is then studied pathologically. They use ultrasound guidance to target particular areas, so it isn't random, but small tumors may be there but not be sampled. I have a friend who has a PSA 8 who just had a biopsy, and was clear. He was elated, and I was too -- but the reality is that if his PSA doesn't go down they'll keep doing biopsies to figure out why the PSA is high. Which may be nothing to do with cancer. After the biopsy, the local urologist laid out all the options, which I had read about before hand. He recommended surgery, as did my family practice doc of 20+ years. But I didn't want to have it done here which is a small hospital, so I asked for a referral. But the referral I got was to a large practice that said they could not do robotic surgery until at least March. I had been told they were the only source for robotic in state. I checked in to Cancer Treatment Centers of America and felt like I was getting a sales job. So, I called the Medical School and talked to their urological oncology department and they said sure, they do pretty much any kind of treatment (the proton therapy I talked with neo about last night is a non-starter here, but the statistics aren't materially better). Radiation therapy requires 8 weeks of daily treatments, but each lasts only 15 minutes. I'll find out in a few weeks what all options the oncologists recommend. Also, they supposedly review the pathology slides before the visit, as 25% of prostate cancer is misdiagnosed. So, I'll get a 2nd opinion before it goes very far.