Hello Jim, this is Dr. B. I’m sorry for the delay but the Labor Day weekend slowed things down (no problem, I’m not worried about it much anyway). All of your biopsy samples came back positive for cancer (ok, you have my attention now). We have discussed your case and feel that we need to do a radical prostatectomy and remove the prostate, lymph nodes, seminal vesicles and surrounding nerves to remove any chance of cancer that may have left your prostate. We need to move on this fairly quickly, can you come down next week?

This 5 minute conversation was the longest of my life as I was point-blank told by one of the best doctors in the region that I had cancer. Not just a little bit but that my prostate was completely full of cancer and that it needed to be removed. It wasn’t more than a few months ago that I didn’t even know what a PSA was, let alone even remotely think that I would be dealing with cancer. That always happened to other people, not me. And yet here I was, looking at my life changing forever. This is my story

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