You're lucky you've only got Prostate Cancer

Sharp and long intake of breath.  Yes, I suppose know what they mean but it is a trial and worse depending on what stage you have and the treatment and side effects you are having.  People mean well but unless they have actually suffered or had someone close to them suffer they don't know.  There have been quite a few conversations on facebook about things not to say to cancer sufferers and the one about knowing someone who has it and is "back to normal" usually comes near the top of the list!  Don't think you can ever be normal even after you have been cured of the disease!

All the best

Des

Freefaller,

I must agree with you.  I'm definitely not normal........ 

Yep. I don't think I'll ever be 'normal' again. As some of you may know, I passed the magic 5 year mark for bowel cancer recently but found I had prostate cancer about  4 months before that milestone. Years of worrying about CEA blood tests, colonoscopies, scans etc all finished, now starting again with PSA tests after radiation and whatever else might come up. The only 'comfort' was that it is Intermediate Favourable. Yes I am feeling sorry for myself at times and also angry that the PC appeared when I was about to try and be 'normal' again. No chance, even if the PC wasn't found. Rant over. Sorry.