What to do on the not so good days - fighting cancer
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2024
- Hi, a few weeks after radiotherapy and this update is about how things are going and also what to do on the not so good days ❤️🙏
Thank you for watching this video, I’ve been making these videos as a vlog sharing my journey through Advanced Metastatic Prostate Cancer.
My world literally fell apart on Sept 15th 2021 when I was diagnosed with Advanced Prostate Cancer which according to my Oncologist is incurable (although ive never accepted that) Questions such as how long have I got left how bad is it , in fact, a whole host of frightening thoughts, where sudennly swarming around my mind and exploding at opportune moments when I felt most vulnerable.
If i were to be honest, I was lost and lonely to begin with. People don’t know how to deal with someone who has stage four cancer. It’s a taboo subject. I honestly didn’t know who to turn to for help. It can be a dark place and I only wish I could of found a channel such as this to help me through those early days.
I started writing a blog whilst I was in hospital and recovering at home after the initial treatment phase.
I then decided to make this vlog because it seemed a better way to get my story out there. I want to provide a channel where I would continue telling my story for as long as I can and invite comments from others that can also help and share their own experiences.
Cancer can be a lonely place, and I hope this channel will help someone else who may be a bit lost and feel alone whilst dealing with their own diagnosis and experience.
Nothing is ever as bad as you think it will be, and that seems to the case so far with my experience with Prostate Cancer.
Thank you for watching. Please comment and subscribe if you feel like it, and please share the videos with anyone you think may find them helpful
Woody ❤️
Agree, keep active mentally and physically, the keeping active is the one and only thing the Doctors and Oncologists i have seen agree on, all have said the same from day one, Keep moving
Keep moving, even when you don't want to🙏❤️
For quite some time, I've been practicing Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and its helped through those bad days and dark thoughts. I'm not even sure I can blame the Prostate Cancer for these feelings and thoughts but I'm trying to deal with the reality of who and where I am. I admire the older members of Church who've been through so many challenges and they give me courage and hope. As always, thanks for posting. Keep moving and best wishes.
It sounds strange but the feeling and thoughts you have are not caused by the prostate cancer it's how we chose to deal with it that makes the experience.
If it was the prostate cancer causing those thoughts and feelings it would mean it would be the same for all of us. It's hard to get your head around this but when you see it then it can change so much, I hope that makes some sense.🙏❤️
@@Livingwith-prostatecancer Thanks Woody
I look forward to your videos, Woody. I know what you mean by the weekend letdown. Work routines are a good distraction. Anyway, you’re a good guy with a good message. I really hope the radiotherapy knocks it out. Meantime you’re living life and spreading goodwill, and you deserve a lot of credit for that. See you next Saturday.
Thank you 🙏❤️
Woody,I have little to say in response today…feel grateful for the opportunity to listen to you…thanks bud😊
Thank you for your kind support 🙏❤️
Facing up and sharing our journey is inspirational and motivating, keep going brother 🙏
Thank you I will keep going 🙏❤️
Hi Woody you just popped up on my feed. I am now subscribed to your channel.
I will keep you in my prayers. ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🇺🇸
Thank you that's very kind 🙏❤️
Just had a birthday, another decade done and dusted, very weird huh!!! Yet in my mind I'm in my 20s somewhere. Both my Grandads died of prostate cancer wayyyyy back, so I'm thinking my odds of that getting me are kinda high, so far it hasn't as far as I'm aware. I do have HBP and some cardiac issues, so yeah, what with my age n all my mortality does weigh heavy on me quite often. Regarding getting out in nature, yeah I agree it's very therapeutic for me also, I think what it does is make me realise that I'm just a very small cog in a huge machine and that whether I'm alive or not, the other cogs will continue to turn, the leaves will still turn color in autumn, new buds will still break out from the branches in spring, the rain will still fall and the sun shine. Somehow my realization of my insignificance is comforting, one would think it would be the opposite, belittling my importance perhaps, but no.
I've just subscribed so I'll be back to listen again Woody, all the best until the next installment mate.
We all connected somehow in this great big beautiful universe.
Please ensure you keep getting regular PSA tests for prostate cancer as it's hereditary.
Thank you for your beautiful comments take care 🙏❤️
Woody it seems that nature works for you and it’s proven that connection with it lifts the spirit. You are doing exactly the right action by getting off that settee and getting out there. You are showing all the same stoicism which Chris Hoy has displayed.
Wow did expect to be mentioned in the same breath as Chris Hoy 😊
Getting in from ork tonight the couch has beaten me but I'll be out for extra walks over the weekend 🙏❤️
Thanks for your videos mate
They certainly help me ..
Thanks Gary 🙏❤️
Thanks woody
Thanks! Me: Stage 4, 3 years in. Can't walk. Find my joy where, when and how I can. Yes, I can find it.
I'm sorry you can't walk, but you can go anywhere in the world you want when you close your eyes and have a little bit of imagination, good luck on your travels in the mind 🙏❤️
I can confirm exercise works wonders and can change your state of mind. In some extreme cases I'll go out and ride a bike 15 miles, then walk 5 miles and come back. After 20 miles you'll come back with a feeling of near euphoria. One day I did 28 miles in 5 hours. Really remarkable.
Wow that's inspirational 🙏❤️
Sir why your psa level raise too 3 too 6 after radio therepy did you ever seen any kind of situation in other patients and what's your next treatment because your cancer is active it will keep spreading all around the body what's your oncologist opinion about that?????hope everything will be fine
The PSA can fluctuate during the radiotherapy and after according to my oncologist.🙏❤️