Introducing myself - My husband has prostate cancer.

Hi,

 

As you can see from the heading, my husband has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. He's 63 and has been told he's unsuitable for radiotherapy because of his age. This means, in his case, radical surgery. He has opted for robotic surgery, called the da vinci prorostatectomy. This is all happening in the first week in May. Obviously I am scared of what implications this has on his future and talking to someone who has been there, done that and worn the t-shirt, would be so great

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  • Hi!  My partner was diagnosed over two years ago and two years ago yesterday he had his prostatectomy using the Da Vinci method.  He is now two years on and doing really well.  The PCa UK site is excellent, I decided to find out as much as I could about the disease as armed with the facts I could help him.  My advice is to read everything yourself and (as you know him better than anyone) feed him the information he needs to know in a way that will work for him (to hear).  That worked with us...

    We also found our way of dealing with it was to try to be light hearted about things and find a bit of laughter in some of the things that happened from then to now!!  We look back at that awful time with a fondness of how it brought us even closer and how we coped with it all.

    Good luck and love each other xx

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  • Hi!  My partner was diagnosed over two years ago and two years ago yesterday he had his prostatectomy using the Da Vinci method.  He is now two years on and doing really well.  The PCa UK site is excellent, I decided to find out as much as I could about the disease as armed with the facts I could help him.  My advice is to read everything yourself and (as you know him better than anyone) feed him the information he needs to know in a way that will work for him (to hear).  That worked with us...

    We also found our way of dealing with it was to try to be light hearted about things and find a bit of laughter in some of the things that happened from then to now!!  We look back at that awful time with a fondness of how it brought us even closer and how we coped with it all.

    Good luck and love each other xx

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