Prostate Cancer possible Re-occurence

Ken, I can understand why you do not think it would be a good idea to return to work at this time. You are right...you have to think how a lack of concentration on your part might affect others. I hope that very soon you will feel comfortable enough to be able to return.

You really hit a nerve when you wrote about how maybe it might have been better not to have known about this cancer at all, considering age and relatively slow progression of the disease. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer when he was in his 70s. His doc told him that he might want to consider not treating it at all as it was slow growing; something else would probably cause his demise before the prostate cancer. But my dad just didn't like the idea of cancer being inside of him, so he decided to have radiation therapy. It cured the cancer, but it ended up damaging his urinary tract, so for years afterwards, he seemed to always be fighting some low grade UTI. It was really odd...the doc told him to drink plenty of water, but I never saw my dad drink anything other than a small glass of milk with a meal and a cup of coffee he would nuke and nurse throughout the course of a day. Even in the hot summers of Texas, I never saw that man drink a glass of water. He said he didn't like water. Well, his dislike of water killed him, plain and simple. The organism that kept infecting his radiation-damaged urinary tract became a superbug, and he died of septecemia, not of prostate cancer.

That's my cautionary tale of the day.

Good luck to you, and do keep us posted on what treatment plan you decide to pursue.