for your prostate health

MY STORY:

I was 65 last year, everybody says I look like early 50's, at the gym nearly everyday. The last two years before retirement I called in sick maybe two or three days ... Fit as a fiddle.
PSA test last year, January 2022, PSA is 7.3. Biopsy done found LOW level of cancer (Gleason score 3+3=6), go with doc's recommendation of "Active Surveillance", meaning do nothing but keep checking.

January 2023 (six months ago) PSA test is 7.7, another biopsy done. Gleason score now higher 3+4=7, now in early intermediate stage. Doc says no more waiting ... you can do radiation, atomic seeds, full removal (prostatectomy). After learning that radiation "cooks" the surrounding stuff and possible other issues (ED, having to take hormone blockers, reoccurrence, ...), I elected for full removal. Doctor said the removal will be easier and more clinical now than later having to remove a radiated prostate and whatever is fried to it.

Surgery May 31st and prostate removed, along with some tissue and three lymph nodes just to check. POST-Surgery biopsy revealed prostate only contained 11% cancer, but lymph nodes and surrounding tissue were clean (no cancer). Had to pee thru a catheter for 10 days, then doctor removed it. I still have some issues with leakage which have been improving.

GOOD NEWS:

Have been back at the gym for the last week on an elliptical machine and just started light weights again. Drove my Barracuda (stick with stiff B&B clutch!!!) five days ago. Rode my Kawasaki W650 today for the first time since surgery. On a scale of 10, I'm back up to a 8.5 and getting stronger.

BEST PART: I know the cancer is out of me AND will not have to second guess I still have it, at least not for a long time. I plan to stick around to see a hundred birthday candles.