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well it has been two years since my husbands diagnosis and his prostate removal. He is just getting over the loss of his sister to cancer after a 11 year battle with stomach cancer. He is getting his psa taken this coming thurs and both of us are understandably scared. Its like when you have so many hard things happen to you you almost expect the worst what can I do to ease both of our anxiety
Stacey,
It is never easy waiting for that PSA result. You've already dodged the one in a thousand type of PC that just can't be stopped since your husband is still alive.
Now the next worse case is having to get salvage treatment of radiation and ADT sometime in the future. Salvage and ADT seem very minor compared to the prostatectomy. If you just accept that that will happen, and maybe it won't, then that worry will fade away (almost) and you can start worrying about some other problems in your life. PC is extremely unlikely to kill your husband.
