It is beyond irksome to deal with a husband who 3 months after the diagnosis has still not made up his mind to do anything. My elderly MIL just tells me NOW that her husband’s prostate cancer was a very aggressive one. Wouldn’t that information have been useful 3 months ago? So in summary, DH’s brother and father had very aggressive cancer and he still can’t decide IF he will do anything beyond wait for his next PSA. Fool. The stress is too much.
Oh, yeah, we celebrated our 41st wedding anniversary last night, wonder if that’s the last one?
Definitely irksome. I agree with xs. You need to pester and yell. He should be too young to want to die.
does his mother know about his condition? does his brother with prostate cancer stage 4 know about your hub’s condition? if not, i would make sure they did and i would have the entire fam on his back about it. what is he going to do? yell at you, not talk to you? i think you can handle that if it means he gets treated and stays alive.
I can get you the name of a fine doctor in NYC. I have a friend whose father died of the disease. He had a very high PSA level and was treated in NYC. His twin sons also tested positive — one was treated in Florida; ane is doing NOTHING in San Francisco. His daughter just had a double mastectomy (breast cancer is related to prostate cancer). This DOES run in families.
I have another friend who was operated on about 15 years ago — doing fine. So is his twin brother — also doing fine. Their sister died of breast cancer and their father died of prostate cance about 25 years ago.