My oncology appointment was brought forward to today, by the establishment of a new clinic.
I saw the Medical Oncologist and Radiologist and it was, all in all, a very positive experience.
She said that it was going to be a curative process:
Millibob I strongly suspect that you will recognise this.
Am I happy with this - yes, because it was going to be what I was going to ask for. I had all my arguments prepared and didn't need any of them.
Both my daughters were with me (my wife had an operation yesterday and was still woozy from the anaesthetic - I blackmailed a neighbour into being a responsible adult), and they were very taken with the positive nature of the discussion.
I am personally much happier now that there is a plan I can work around.
With my background in London's East End, I have taken this way of looking at what is being done with me. Imagine the cancer as a person.
The image helps me, and I stuck it in here on the off chance that it will help others.
Calcium and Vitamin D tablets - exercise and good food. Everything, in fact, that I have seen here.
Hope the positive nature of this post helps others who are starting this journey.
Hello mstev2
Before your radiotherapy takes place you will attend a "planning scan" where you will get a full explanation of how it works and they will run you through a CT scanner to line things up. They will then tattoo 3 permanent dots on your body and use these each fraction when you are on the "sunbed" to ensure that you are in just the right place.
My toilet seat is a lovely wooden one, no plastic for my gluteus maximus.....
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Splinter risk though 
I do believe you can purchase a nice coloured fluffy cover for the wooden seat. Plus mine is fully varnished!!
But i thank you for your concern ! 
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I had my first big boys' injection today.
An even bigger one in a month's time.
The doctor wouldn't let me have a sticker like he gives my granddaughters, so I bought myself an ice cream.
Then I thought "There should be a sticker".
So, here's a sticker:
Surely there must be better than that out there?
By the way, saying to your wife "I've always been hot, now I'm flush as well" is rewarded by "the look".
Still, I feel I've started.
It might be comforting to know that the doctor administering the injection, one that I am not that familiar with, said that Prostate Cancer was almost good to have, because it can be beaten. Good to hear.
Steve
Changed, but not diminished.
Good Evening mstev2
I love the badge - but after 30 months on HT I would have an arm full!
Yes you are right about the quote - it was my urologist who said at my bedside to his student following "If you get a cancer - get Prostate - it's the best one to cure!!
Good luck with the HT - I hope you don't get every side effect.
Best wishes - Brian
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