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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Day 3 ... seriously?

Is this really Day 3? It isn't too bad. I had tuna/salmon with mustard and pickle relish mixed in at 11. I slept through breakfast. Well it was going to have mustard but every mustard container I picked up out of the fridge door was like all sputtery and watery and nothing really came out, so I threw those two away and hunted down a nearly full bottle. Oh you know what I had a hamburger bun yesterday with a hamburger in it. And today I had one oatmeal raisin cookie. There have also been a few cheesy poofs to cross my lips. Other than that protein rules the world.

My middle child is looking at a gigantic photographic edition of the 2010 Guiness Book of World Records and geesh OctoMom is just gross. Also there is a man pulling people with his eye sockets. And a record for most domestic appliances thrown in one minute.

I read Invasion of the Prostate Snatchers - No more unnecessary biopsies, radical treatment or loss of sexual potency. It only took me a few days.
This book, copyright 2010, was entertaining, informative, presenting information both from the perspective of an oncologist, Dr. Mark Scholz, as well as that of a patient, Ralph Blum. Blum has been a prostate cancer survivor for many years and in the book describes in detail his emotional state as he weighed his options. He details his encounters with doctors and gives a look into the world of radiation, cryotherapy, radical prostatectomy, brachytherapy implantation (radiation seeds) as well as suggestions on dietary changes that may be made to improve outcome. There are many options to treat prostate cancer(and they all have such crappy side effects). Up to date information on treatment options are presented for all three risk levels (low risk, intermediate risk, high risk) of prostate cancer. It was important for me to read up on this matter in a recently published book, and I appreciated that the bias seemed swayed in the direction of the patient and his needs versus other opinions.


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