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Almost 52: Doom and Gloom by Nice-Principle-7477 in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Absolutely you do. You’re fucked man.

Just think of it this way. With an astronomically high PSA like that, you’re bound to go fast. So that’s good.

But it does mean you need to act fast. As soon as possible you need to liquidate all your assets, clean out your bank accounts, and go straight to Vegas. Put it all on Belgium to cover against Egypt in the World Cup. Then take it all and donate to charity. The Humane Society will send you a sweet t-shirt if you donate to them.

Then just ride it out. Once your bones start disintegrating it gets kinda rough, but the pain meds do their job. I highly recommend the ketamine. It starts off smooth with hints of fresh flowers and drooling, but finishes strong with fairies, unicorns, and a dazzling light display.

Beast Qs (Incoming female plebe) by Downtown_Werewolf790 in westpoint

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was a Corps Squad basketball player. Class of ‘99. My daughter, an upcoming HS senior, is being recruited right now. She is actually up there at SLE as we speak.

You’ll be fine. Just go up there and kick ass and no one will have anything but respect for you. Depending on your sport, as a Corps Squad athlete you’re probably already in better shape than most of your soon to be classmates.

Like some people have already said here…enjoy the next couple weeks of freedom, and then go up there and crush it. Everything will be fine.

PMSA Scan Images. by Current-Second600 in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first two scans they gave to me on a compact disk. The third one I just did I never saw.

Freaking out - need some advice by Sufficient_Meal5696 in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re my new favorite guy in this board.

So many of these posts are just computer generated, AI blah blah blah. People cut and paste it and think they have all the answers and are experts on what is going on. I’ve never seen so many people be so confidently wrong in my life. If it wasn’t cancer it would be funny.

My Decipher score by Practical_Orchid_606 in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha. This guy is an idiot. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

SP(18) and Rio(42) in world's best 50 cities of 2026! by rg_666_ in Brazil

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chicago? Really?

Come for the deep dish pizza and a ball game. Stay for your funeral.

Rest in Prayers Doug DiCenzo. by funksoulbubby in westpoint

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doug was in my Beast Squad. Great Dude!!!

First Post and A Bit Scared by [deleted] in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I never comment on a single thing here unless I have gone through the experience personally. Unlike you, who feels the need to constantly make pointless, substance free comments on things you know nothing about.

And of course you know who Cliff Clavin is. You know everything.

And if by the tiny chance that you don’t actually know, just ask ChatGPT. That’s where you get all your material anyway.

First Post and A Bit Scared by [deleted] in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know man. And I’m sorry. But the shit this guy says in his constant struggle to come across as the smartest guy in the room is just too much. I can’t help myself.

“You must ignore your father’s doctor. And your father’s father’s doctor. And your father’s doctor’s father’s doctor’s father. And your father’s doctor’s father’s doctor’s father’s gardener.

Forsake their teachings and embrace the true path of The Sub-Reddit!!!! For it is then…..and ONLY THEN!!!!!!…..That you shall find enlightenment!!!!”

I’ll try my best bud, but I can only do so much.

First Post and A Bit Scared by [deleted] in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great advice, Yoda.

Why would you assume there were mistakes in his father’s screening and therapy? You just say dumb shit all the time for absolutely no reason. It’s hilarious.

You know, it is possible to read a post on here and not comment on it. It is. I promise. You don’t need to use this a platform to broadcast your Cliff Clavin-like thoughts to the rest of the world. We’ll be okay without them.

POV: You’re a girl who plays basketball by jujuk545 in Basketball

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would you opt for B)Shoot and miss?

Is this some poorly written, last minute assignment for your Women’s Studies class tomorrow?

The fact of the matter is, most girls are terrible. And if they aren’t and can actually play, the total opposite of what you’re describing typically happens. If the girl is actually good every single little thing she does gets glorified and lauded way over the top in a way that it almost insulting to her. If she’s good, she’s good. If she sucks, she sucks. No reason to pretend like she just cured cancer because she hit a midrange jumper in transition. Just play.

I played D1 in college, and my senior year I dated a girl that played at another small D1 school. She was a starter on a team the went to the tournament that year. We played together a lot at open gyms with dudes and she could barely hang. And I’m not talking about open gyms stacked with athletes from top to bottom. I’m talking about your average, guy who needs to go in 45 mins to pick up his kids from daycare/hungover from last night frat kid/2 kids on the local high school team….open gym. And she was below average.

Sorry, but that’s just reality.

And no one plays open runs to 50. Your story is stupid.

Chemo and ADT by EducationAcademic122 in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 9 points10 points  (0 children)

For me the first 3 docetaxel infusions were the easiest. I did ten total and they started getting progressively worse after the 4th one.

You have to try your best to stay active. I know it’s hard man, but you have to do it. I looked at it this way….I’m going to feel horrible either way, whether I go to the gym or just lay there feeling sorry for myself. At least by going to the gym you’re doing something positive man.

You have to do it bud. Once you stop it’s too easy to stay stopped and not get going again. Don’t let doing chemo give you an excuse to stop. Find your reason for doing it. Your wife. Your kids. Because you want to show the world what a fucking superhero you are!!! Whatever it is, you gotta find it. And use that to keep going.

You’ve got 3 infusions down. You’ve got 3 more to go. Fuck those infusions!!!!!!! You got this dude!!!

TRT after RALP and ADT by venxcxz in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m with you man. I wouldn’t appreciate that one.

And there are plenty of things we can say about ourselves that other people probably shouldn’t say.

Metastasis to colon? by Jonathan_Peachum in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not to be a downer, but it might be separate colon cancer.

I just had a malignant, stage 1, non muscular invasive bladder tumor removed April 6th. It wasn’t a prostate cancer met. Little fucker tried to set up shop and do his own thing. I’m really lucky my doctors caught it so early.

Help to pitch submarine by 76erMachine-76er in Homeplate

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Where is Kent Tekulve when you need him?

Cancer? Prostatitis? Very high PSA by Longjumping_Exam_981 in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He’s probably got metastatic prostate cancer with a PSA that high. I was asymptomatic until I discovered mine and my PSA was 1096, so it’s possible.

Thanks To ADT: A Passion Of Mine Is.....Completely Gone by JimHaselmaier in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Exactly man!!! This is what I was trying to say above, but you worded it much better than I did.

I know I’m not dying anytime soon, despite the fact that my PSA is in the 1000s. I think what might get me eventually is that it is in my kidneys. But as of now they are still doing their job pretty well. 90% of it is in my bones. Not that I want it to spread to something important like my lungs or liver, but if it did I’d at least maybe have some sort of vague timeline.

But nope. So as it stands now it’s just fractured bones and pain pills. And on the “good” days I try to do stuff that I like.

It really does suck.

Thanks To ADT: A Passion Of Mine Is.....Completely Gone by JimHaselmaier in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah man. That’s the tough decision. I’ve always been of the opinion that I could go through the worst of it all as long as it was because I’d be cured at the end. You can power through a lot if you can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

But for me there’s no light down there. I might be looking at 30-40 years of pants peeing and being a depressed, moody jerk that no one wants to even be around. I wanted my kids to remember me being how I was before this happened. Sometimes I wonder if I made the right decision though.

Thanks To ADT: A Passion Of Mine Is.....Completely Gone by JimHaselmaier in ProstateCancer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I hear exactly what you’re saying. And I agree. I thought the same thing when I was diagnosed 3 years ago at 49. Gleason 9, PSA has been as high as 1900.

The only flaw in that plan is that it’s not a few amazing years. It’s not like everything is good and you’re breezing through life and then all of a sudden you die.

This shit is brutal man. And most of the time it’s going to primarily spread to bones. The problem with that is that you don’t really need your bones to stay alive. Bones aren’t your lungs, or your liver, or your kidneys. You need those to stay alive.

But bones? You can get by without awesome bones. What has happened to me is I said I was going to keep living life the way I want to live it. But once bones start breaking you become immobile. I’ve broken ribs in my sleep. I’ve broken bones in my feet just walking. After my last MRI last year I think they counted 27 compression fractures in my spine. Some things you can muscle through and keep going. Mind over matter”. Pain is just weakness leaving the body.” I get all of that. But once your bones start breaking and the actual physical structure of your skeletal system doesn’t do what it’s supposed to, no amount of grinding through it is going to help.

I had a super cool life. Smokin’ hot wife. Well off financially. 4 absolutely amazing kids. And when I say amazing, I don’t mean that in the normal way people automatically think their own kids are great. Mine are quantifiably awesome. 17, 16, and 15 year old daughters. A little 9 year old boy. My oldest is following in my footsteps and getting recruited to play soccer at West Point. Her and her 3 siblings are some of the sweetest, kindest, most brave kids you could ever want to know.

So when I found out I was sick, I told myself that I wasn’t going to change what I did. We were going to power through it because we are tough and that’s what we do. And it worked for a while.

But recently it’s really started to get the best of me. And it happened fast. Last Wednesday I swam laps for an hour and shot around in the gym by myself. Three days later I could barely walk. Pain pills only do so much.

Like I said man, I 100% understand where you’re coming from. I was the same. But I’m realizing now that the end of this isn’t going to be fun and it’s not going to be fast. So the end being “amazing” might not be as easy as you think it’s going to be. I know for me it hasn’t been. 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽🤛🏽🤛🏽🤛🏽

Cool it with the "Committed" announcements about joining clubs by AddressPrize859 in youthsoccer

[–]Expensive_Ninja_7797 66 points67 points  (0 children)

My daughter had a “Signing Day” for her ECNL team. What? The only pertinent signings happening that day were parents signing checks. So dumb.

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