http://healthyeating.kissblogs.com/blog en-us Sun, 21 Mar 2010 03:20:38 -0700 Main Page Blogware David Ricketts http://healthyeating.kissblogs.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/19/4460378.html http://healthyeating.kissblogs.com/blog/_archives/2010/2/19/4460378.html Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:30:41 -0800 <p>It’s been almost 10 months since I’ve written an update for my blog. Life threw me some curves, as it often does—although my own health remains excellent.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>For the last three and a half years I have been living in Florida with my 95-year old dad, keeping an eye him. He was diagnosed with prostate cancer 20 years ago at age 75. But cancer was not the final game changer for him, instead it was just plain old age and congestive heart failure in August 2009. </p><p>At the time of his prostate cancer diagnosis, his PSA was 36, but he never knew his Gleason score. His initial primary treatment was external beam radiation, and that was back in the dark ages. The technicians covered him with lead blankets, aimed the radiation gun, and fled from the treatment room. The cancer remained, and for twenty years his only therapy was intermittent hormonal therapy—a lupron shot every now and then, sometimes going as long as 18 months between shots. And this was long before anyone began to consider intermittent hormonal therapy as a sensible approach.</p> Main Page