Posted on 09/08/2024 6:18:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Baseball Hall of Famer and former Yankee Wade Boggs has prostate cancer.
He made the announcement Saturday night on social media and sounded optimistic, saying he will be ready to take part in the ritual cancer patients have of ringing a bell when they’ve concluded their treatment.
“With the strength and support of my family and my faith in God, I’m going to ring that damn bell,” Boggs wrote, adding a photo of a prostate cancer patient guide.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
If you are (biologically) male and you live long enough, this will be you.
I had a prostate biopsy a few years back. In hindsight, it was the worst thing I could do, especially since my scans showed no evidence of anything but BPH. Things down there have never worked right since. And I have a concern about piercing the capsule of any organ and what the downstream (NPI) consequences would be.
As a prostate cancer survivor my experience is that there is none.
God bless
As my dad used to say, “I HATE going to the doctor. They always find something wrong with me...” :-)
I rang that bell - he can too...
I think he was looking for the sarcastic "brown" ribbon.
Yeah--it's like a 98% survival rate these days.
The worst part is not the cancer, or the treatment.
The worst part is the side effects of the treatment.
Yes ... and the finger. My husband's PSAs were normal but the doctor felt a very slight difference in the prostrate. Biopsy showed cancer. Still encapsulated within the prostate but it was there.
Long story short, he had the surgery (look up the DaVinci robot), they removed it with all the nerves intact, and everything is great.
“I had a prostate biopsy a few years back. In hindsight, it was the worst thing I could do, especially since my scans showed no evidence of anything but BPH. Things down there have never worked right since.”
Same experience. Also ended up in the ER for 8 hours getting antibiotics through every orifice available due to the procedure causing an infection. On track to have to do it again. And now they want to do an MRI first so they can get a sample from any suspicious area shown on the MRI. Great. Getting old sucks.
Apparently you watched Seinfeld. 😂
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.