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gopiscrap

(24,593 posts)
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 02:30 PM 4 hrs ago

I shared my double cancer diagnoses

and wanted to thank every one for your warm wishes and also reports of your own prostate and bladder cancers. It is uplifting to know that things like this can be cured. I am so thankful to all of you, and am thankful for all the hearts you have bestowed on me. I am profoundly moved...however from now on please save your hearts for those who do not have any...perhaps a heart from some one will totally make their day and lift their spirit. You all have surely lifted mine...please carry that forward to others. In Gratefulness Mike C

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hlthe2b

(113,196 posts)
1. If all of our healing wishes can be additive to your treatment, then you are on your way
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 02:43 PM
4 hrs ago

for the best outcome. You certainly have those wishes! Be well and positive!

Submariner

(13,282 posts)
2. I was also just diagnosed with prostate cancer
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 03:09 PM
3 hrs ago

but appear to have caught it early at 6.4 psa. I’m in the Lycopene consumption stage to see if I can lower that number for the next psa in 90 days. Good luck beating this thing.


Trueblue1968

(19,144 posts)
10. Last year I was diagnosed with Uterine and Throat cancer. I had to have a total hysterectomy
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:41 PM
1 hr ago

Chemotherapy and radiation treatments. The sessions ended last September. To get rid of the thyroid cancer, my thyroid was

Removed last month. January 3. I had a cat scan last week and ALL the cancer is gone !!!! I have to take 125 mg of thyroid for rest of my life and need

Pelvic exam every 3 months for couple years. I lost all my hair and it is slowly growing back. I was lucky.

To OP .... I pray to God you totally recover!!! Hugs and best wishes from trueblue. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

surfered

(12,336 posts)
7. I know three people in town that had bladder cancer. They had treatment and are still kick'n.
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 04:48 PM
1 hr ago

Do what he doctors tell you. Good luck ! 🙏

A-Schwarzenegger

(15,789 posts)
8. I had my prostate out 23 years ago
Sat Feb 7, 2026, 05:10 PM
1 hr ago

& i'm doing fine. I had to make some inconvenient adjustments along the way, but i just thought of how many of us men go through prostate cancer and at least didnt feel so all alone. My faith helped, my 12-step work helped, talking about it when i needed to helped. All my prayers and love to you, Mike. I'll tell you one story after i had the biopsy on my prostate. They told me before one of the minor effects of the biopsy, which i quickly forgot. So I was, uh, fiddling around with myself the next day or so, and my semen comes out brown! Rust-colored! A mix of semen and the blood that normally gets in there after the biopsy. My heart about stopped until i remembered what they'd told me, and i went ahead and cleaned up the area with relief. Again, Mike, prayers, etc., and if something incongruously makes you feel like laughing along the path, indulge! In fact if you message me your address I'll send you a copy of Mixed Animal, the novel. It might tickle you here and there.

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