Morning all,
Well, I'm now able to see to type and read but not able to do fine modeling.
Thank you all for the well wishes, prayers and thoughts.
Here is an update on my R and R.
Today is four weeks post my Vitrectomy eye surgery. I have 2-3 more weeks of healing in the eye before I get back to some sort of normalcy. I can see shapes and colors out of the right eye but nothing in what I call "in focus or clarity."
I'm also 15 sessions into the 40 sessions of radiation that the Oncologists required. As I mentioned in a past post, nothing showed on the MRI or the PET/CT scans. Nothing in the prostate area, stomach or lymph nodes. MY PSA was a .20 and has gone up over the last nine years since it read a .01. So, they say they prefer to go this route as a precautionary measure and not wait to see if the PSA goes higher. As they say, "It is still in the very safe zone."
Also, they found a 2mm spot on the top of my upper left lobe of the left kidney. A 2021 MRI, done just prior to my heart surgery, showed that same spot. It has been the same size since 2021 and in the past 5 years hasn't moved or grown. When the radiation is finished, they want to go in and take the spot off the kidney. They have no idea what it may or may not be.
I don't mean to make light of this going on in my life, I only mean to say none of this is very concerning to me because it is all out of my hands. I stay very positive and all this is a major inconvenience for me. I'm not the inactive type of person. At age 80 I still edge and cut my own grass, make house repairs, bowl and play, err, I mean work in the shed building the Empire. And, I don't use a riding mower.
I call this break in my life my forced R and R, Reading and Radiation.
Someone sent and email and mentioned a forum get well card sponsored by Dave Emery. I'll look that up later and read the comments.
Be well my friends, stay safe and healthy.
Tom
Well, I'm now able to see to type and read but not able to do fine modeling.
Thank you all for the well wishes, prayers and thoughts.
Here is an update on my R and R.
Today is four weeks post my Vitrectomy eye surgery. I have 2-3 more weeks of healing in the eye before I get back to some sort of normalcy. I can see shapes and colors out of the right eye but nothing in what I call "in focus or clarity."
I'm also 15 sessions into the 40 sessions of radiation that the Oncologists required. As I mentioned in a past post, nothing showed on the MRI or the PET/CT scans. Nothing in the prostate area, stomach or lymph nodes. MY PSA was a .20 and has gone up over the last nine years since it read a .01. So, they say they prefer to go this route as a precautionary measure and not wait to see if the PSA goes higher. As they say, "It is still in the very safe zone."
Also, they found a 2mm spot on the top of my upper left lobe of the left kidney. A 2021 MRI, done just prior to my heart surgery, showed that same spot. It has been the same size since 2021 and in the past 5 years hasn't moved or grown. When the radiation is finished, they want to go in and take the spot off the kidney. They have no idea what it may or may not be.
I don't mean to make light of this going on in my life, I only mean to say none of this is very concerning to me because it is all out of my hands. I stay very positive and all this is a major inconvenience for me. I'm not the inactive type of person. At age 80 I still edge and cut my own grass, make house repairs, bowl and play, err, I mean work in the shed building the Empire. And, I don't use a riding mower.
I call this break in my life my forced R and R, Reading and Radiation.
Someone sent and email and mentioned a forum get well card sponsored by Dave Emery. I'll look that up later and read the comments.
Be well my friends, stay safe and healthy.
Tom
"A LA ACL1504", funny.
