9 Months Later....

Here we are 9 months post-treatment. At 4 months, I had my PSA taken. As you recall from earlier posts, the cancerous cells are not eliminated with treatment -- their ability to reproduce is denied. Hence, if the treatment is successful, my PSA will slowly go down over a number of years. That is the theory. My first PSA? My highest PSA was 4.6 and my 4 month PSA went all the way down to 1.8! Talk about happy excitement.

What about morbidity? Better than I could have imagined in my wildest dreams. Everything, and I mean everything, is just the same as before treatment. The treatment had no lasting effects on me whatsoever other than to make me a huge proponent of proton therapy.