Cancer/writing Journal #110
It's been a while since the last entry. If I am calculating correctly, I have missed three reports of my PSA remaining at a level too low to be detectable. It has indeed been regularly too low to be detectable and yesterday I again had the PSA checked and again it remains too low to be detectable. This is a cancer blog with no cancer to talk about. I was first diagnosed, I was told I had three to five years to live. I am now in that window of death as I like to call it. Come November, I will be over the five years mar I continue to be treated for cancer, receiving a shot every three months that turns off my testosterone and a daily oral medication that is to serve as a backup for the shot (the shot is called Lupron). The most noteworthy feature of the daily medication is that it costs $17,000 something per month. I have made uneasy peace with that exorbitance, which I worked through in some earlier blogs. I still believe ...