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Posted 11/28/2019 9:46 AM (GMT -5)
Happy Thanksgiving to all our forum brothers and sisters. I know for me there’s lots to be thankful for, not the least of which is the wisdom I have gained from being on this forum. In fact I would even say I’m thankful for the wisdom I have gained from being diagnosed with prostate cancer. It was a wake up call for sure and gives you new meaning to life.

This year I had a grandson, my first, so that was a thrill my wife and I are both healthy, so are our kids, and as I’ve said elsewhere, I’m getting ready to retire. so a snapshot in time right now tells me I’ve got so much to be thankful for this year. I’m sure we all do, and it’s worthwhile exercise to think about just what that is for each of us

Enjoy your turkey
Posted 11/28/2019 9:51 AM (GMT -5)
ADT, very much so. It gives me the opportunity to be grateful for everything else in my life.

Happy Thanksgiving!
Posted 11/28/2019 9:51 AM (GMT -5)
I was just writing about being thankful...so let me paste that into this post:

I’m thankful that this community on HealingWell exists. I was diagnosed with PCa at age 51 in 2012 . I wouldn’t say I was scared, but I was depressed. After my uro told me, I remember trudging out to the parking lot with my (very supportive) wife and saying, “let’s just schedule this and get this over.”

I suppose it was Google that led me here. A few weeks after my diagnosis, I remember posting and saying something along the lines of “I’m new here. How do I get started?” Somehow I knew that it would be beneficial to me to be pro-active about my treatment…I just didn’t how to do it.

It was the community here that informed me, told me what questions to ask and—most important—how to take responsibility for my own care. There was such a great and helpful group of guys here in 2012 and it’s just as true in 2019. (And in some cases, it’s the same guys!)

Happy Thanksgiving all!
Posted 11/28/2019 9:59 AM (GMT -5)
Thankful to be alive...
After being born in 1952 weighing a hair over 1 pound, After about 4.. 2 week stays in the hospital because my O2 drops in the low 80's...
After 12 surgeries and few more Hospital stays, I'm Grateful to the Lord that I'm alive....
Grateful for my Family....My Church Family....
And Grateful for this forum for the knowledge about this beast called Cancer....
God Bless everyone....
Posted 11/28/2019 10:13 AM (GMT -5)
thankful that I am still able to walk, breath, and type annoying comments on HW.
Posted 11/28/2019 10:34 AM (GMT -5)
I am indeed grateful for a lot of things. Overall, my health is pretty good right now, my two sons who live with me are both healthy, and other family members, many of whom live nearby, are also all doing well.

In particular, I'm grateful that my 98-year-old mother is happy and has adjusted well to the ALF she moved into a few months ago. (It was time). She didn't want to at first, but once she was there she adapted well. I'm grateful for that.

My retirement has gone very well since I quit work in 2007 (yes, we've been talking about retirement lately) and I'm very grateful for that.

I'm grateful for all those things and more.

And I do include among the "more" the opportunity to post and respond regularly here on this wonderful forum, and I do hope that what I occasionally have said here from time to time has hopefully helped someone a little.

I keep doing it because I see it as my chance to "pay it forward," as we have discussed here in the past, that if I myself have been fortunate enough to get the upper hand over this thing, at least for now, then if I can possibly assist others by talking to them from my own experience, then I am very grateful to be able to do so.

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher.
Posted 11/28/2019 10:43 AM (GMT -5)
Yes, I too reflect on all the many, many blessings in my life. Family, friends and the ability to still enjoy this world. I suppose older people (ha, ha most avoid the word old and instead say older) have said "the world is going to hell in a hand basket since I was a kid" and have been saying that for thousands of years. But when I think about just one small area of human life, treatment of prostate cancer, I see such wonderful improvement that I rejoice. Forty five years ago when I was a young physician all we could do for those with Pca was open radical prostatectomy, seed implants, cobalt radiation (many, many more side effects from that) and orchiectomy (a depressing and permanent treatment with no holidays except testosterone injections) I am grateful for the progress. For all this and much, much more I give thanks most days but especially this day. Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Posted 11/28/2019 10:06 PM (GMT -5)
I am grateful for thousands of men who have participated in clinical trials so that I could receive treatment that now works for me. Since diagnosis I have had 2 new grandchildren. I am grateful for wonderful care given to my newest granddaughter when she was in the ICU for 2 of her 7 days in the hospital. Finally I am blessed this Thanksgiving when that now 1 month old granddaughter met her 100 year old great grandfather(my Dad). Thankful and blessed indeed.
Posted 11/29/2019 2:53 AM (GMT -5)
I am grateful to modern medicine for prolonging my life with both open heart surgery and cutting cancer out of my body. Had I been born 30-40 years earlier I'd likely be dead today. I am thankful for the extra years.

And I am darn happy to have been born in America, the most prosperous nation on earth where we have the largest population of poor fat people this world has ever known.

And I am indebted to those who gave me the tools and the knowledge to maneuver through this life.
Posted 11/30/2019 12:34 PM (GMT -5)
Right this second, after that last sneeze, and just 6 weeks past my RALP....I am really grateful for the Depends Guard pad attached to my underwear! ;)
Posted 11/30/2019 1:08 PM (GMT -5)
I am grateful for so many things I try to practice gratitude daily and not just one day a year. I learned about this a few years ago when I took the Science of Happiness course through UC Berkeley. It definitely increased my own level of happiness and when I was diagnosed a couple years later, I used the skills taught in the class to keep my stress levels low and my gratitude and happiness levels high. The course is online and free:

https://ggsc.berkeley.edu/what_we_do/event/the_science_of_happiness
Posted 11/30/2019 1:08 PM (GMT -5)
Stephen, yes been there,done that. It will get much better.
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