Clark
Hadley and Debby live in Michigan,, USA. He was 47 when he was diagnosed on March
18, 2007. His initial PSA was 3.9 ng/ml, his Gleason Score was 6 and he was staged
T1c His choice of treatment was Robotic Surgery. Here is his story:
I wasn't
feeling well and found I doctor that was going to be my family doctor. I didn't
have a doctor and hadn't seen a doctor in 25 yrs. He want me to have my blood
drawn and included a PSA test. When I got the results back he told me that a PSA
of 3.9 ng/ml was high for a person my age. He wanted me to go see a Urologist.
I met with him and he told me that any PSA over 2.4 ng/ml for a person
my age would be high and told me he wanted to do a biopsy. I went in - no pain
medicine and Wham! - he took out six cores. I was very surprised after that of
the bleeding after ejaculating. Which upset me and I thought what Hell I was experiencing.
I still thought that the biopsy would come back and everything would be fine.
I got a phone call and the Urologist told me I had cancer and started
telling about Stages and Gleasons and percentages which I would not make out.
So I called him back the next day to ask him what he said and he told me we would
talk in his office in about a week and a half. This made me start going out onto
the Internet and look for information on Prostate Cancer.
I found this
web site and read about a person that went to have LRP (Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy)
done with Dr. Menon which I found out was in Detroit at the Henry Ford Health
System. I just want to say that Dr. Menon and his team have got to be the best
in the world. It would be to anyone's advantage to talk to them and find out more.
When I met with the Urologist I had my questions ready and my brother
and wife came with me. He could only offer the Radical Prostatectomy and was mad
when I told him that I was looking at having the prostate removed with the Robot.
He also told me not to come back! I know that he realizes that he is becoming
obsolete it would have done the obsolete surgery to me which is upsetting.
I
went in to Henry Ford Hospital on May 15, 2007 to have the surgery. He took my
Prostate and Lymph nodes and told me that he got the Cancer out of me. That was
the first time I had any surgery and I was sore and bloated. I don't know why
but I thought that it would be easier but looking back I realize that they had
to do a lot of work removing the prostate. I was walking that day and went home
with a catheter the next day.
Clark's e-mail address is: topofthehill@charter.net
