Posted 4/26/2022 11:27 AM (GMT -5)
Our Friend,
There is never any particular reason to say goodbye on this forum. Unless you sign up as a moderator there are no rules for how much you should participate. It's OK to only stop in when (and if) you are curious how people are doing. It's OK to lurk if you've got nothing to say. It's OK to check in on the forum once every few years. Saying goodbye doesn't actually do anything. We'll still be glad to see you if you stop by.
On top of that, I do encourage men who have had good outcomes to hang around for a while if they've got time. There is a tendency for guys who are diagnosed, get treated, and do fine to drop out of the forum. This is fine, of course, but it does leave the forum with a statistically misleading number of men who haven't done as well. This can be alarming for new guys who find themselves surrounded by the unlucky men for whom prostate cancer is a protracted struggle. It's good to have a few voices who say "I was diagnosed; I was treated; I am OK" among the long-timers with their stories of distant metastases and incurable disease.