MyOnlineTeam Daily Statistics for 06/17 - All Members:

Team rank movement report
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                              Prior                New         Current
Member name                   Rank      Change     Rank        Points
=========================     =====     ======     =====     ===========
wrr                              56         -1        57       2,297,575
Mechanical                       57         +1        56       2,301,020
mlafferty                        92         -1        93         904,101
CCH                              93         +1        92         906,386
blueKnight                      143         -1       144         279,103
Jean-Guy Germain                144         +1       143         283,388
Rick_E                          216         -1       217          55,184
justinbagwell                   217         +1       216          55,890
ARENDACI                        226         -1       227          49,518
stonechild                      227         +1       226          49,798

Points milestones report
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parmesian reached 40,000,000 points
Vuj reached 18,500,000 points
smcclarigan reached 5,500,000 points

Runtime milestones report
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xroule reached 65 years of runtime

Results returned milestones report
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Coingames reached 275,000 results

New members report
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No new members found.

Retired members report
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No new retired members found.

For the week as a team:

Statistics  Total Run Time  Points   Results

Date         (y:d:h:m:s)    Earned   Returned
06/17/2012  1:070:08:35:23  1,526,717  4,833 
06/16/2012  0:217:20:46:40    733,619  2,243 
06/15/2012  0:335:06:20:25  1,183,499  3,897 
06/14/2012  0:308:07:46:54  1,132,989  3,609 
06/13/2012  0:316:13:27:58  1,125,663  3,594 
06/12/2012  0:361:07:20:37  1,312,308  3,868 
06/11/2012  0:358:08:09:06  1,280,671  3,631

Team Records:
Results Returned: 04/05/2012 8,248
Points: 03/07/2012 2,312,643
Runtime: 04/05/2012 1:197:18:06:42

Good crunching folks!!!!!

...........................CONGRATULATIONS parmesian ON REACHING 40,000,000 MOT POINTS !!!...........................

..........................CONGRATULATIONS smcclarigan ON REACHING 5,500,000 MOT POINTS !!!..........................

Short answer is relatively well. Almost there so to speak. Basically, the cancer is proving to be localized as hoped and the long-term outlook post prostatectomy is extremely good. My final test is Tuesday and I will know those results and when my surgery will be in July by end of the week. It's been shall we say a distinctive journey. The beginning was by far the worst part. I've read that our fear of cancer is one that taps into our instinctive fear of something foreign inside our bodies. Truth is though that cancer is basically your normal cellular reproduction gone whacko so there's nothing really foreign inside you. Yet we fear it so despite the fact that heart disease kills more of us that cancer. For me, it began with my regular annual physical and a spike in my PSA. My PSA has been on the high end ever since my thyroid went out on me. It's gone up and down since then. This time though, the spike was enough that I knew it needed looking into, that it wasn't "normal". If I wasn't getting a physical each year, odds are that I'd be completely unaware of my cancer as I'm "symptom-free" and most likely would never see 60. Once this is behind me, I expect that I'll be seeing my wife getting "the once-over" from her doctors. She's overdue. My younger brother is having a bit harder of a time dismissing doctors as a worthless waste of time. Once you're past 50, skipping the yearly physical is a lot like hitting the slots in Vegas except hitting the jackpot is NOT what you want to do. Starting them in your mid-to-late 40's lets you establish a good baseline. I knew my PSA would be high but I knew that the change was not normal for me. That's an understanding of my body I couldn't have otherwise.

Yes, I've read about the recent panel of doctors that said getting a regular PSA test was not necessary. What you didn't hear was that this panel didn't have a single urologist on it. One of the worst cases of prostate cancer my urologist has seen was with someone whose PSA was 1.5 (0 to 4 is considered "normal"). A high PSA doesn't mean cancer but a low one doesn't mean you're clean either. Like I said though, the beginning was the worst part. You don't know anything for certain yet and that lack of certainty is no joy-ride. A good doctor won't tell you there's nothing to worry about until they know for sure but that doesn't keep you from looking for anything you can find to pin your hopes on. You do tend to get plenty of information from all of the different people you deal with and some of that info will be conflicting. You have to take this info from folks who see the whole spectrum of cases and figure out how it applies to your case if at all. After my urologist had done a more precise PSA test on me, the tech that did the ultrasound of my prostate had lots of info. I understood better that the biopsy happens whatever the results. The ultrasound helped them decide if there were any specific areas to target with the biopsy. Supposedly, 12 samples is the minimum and they can go for as many as 24. When they called me to schedule my 12 sample biopsy, I took that as good news since they were only going for 12. They found cancer in 6 out of my 12 samples.

Your doctor should always give you a copy of any test results. Mine did. It helps you understand better afterwards what they tell you when they review the results with you. You're not going to leave that review with a complete or precise understanding of the results. Looking over the results later on you own helps. Things you heard make more sense then. The biopsy samples were only about three-eighths of an inch long and needle thin. Of my six samples with cancer, three samples had only about five percent cancerous tissue. The two worst were under fifty percent. Together with what the urologist had told me going over the results, I knew not only that my cancer was in just the front half of my prostate, I could get a feel for its shape and size. The T2b grade that was assigned to my cancer made more sense. That said that my cancer, compared to others that were the same, would be expected to be localized. The "Gleason" scores of 6 to 7 assigned to my samples meant that, while my cancer wasn't the slow growing kind, it wasn't the extremely aggressive kind either. Watching and waiting wasn't going to be an option for me and, for me, that was a good thing. I had caught mine early. Last week, the CT scan confirmed that it had not spread outside of my prostate to any lymph nodes. Tuesday, I have a bone scan that should confirm it's not spread to my bones. As soon as those results come in and confirm that, I've told my urologist to go ahead and schedule the prostatectomy. I could go with the radioactive pellets instead but removing the prostate actually has better outcomes. About a 95 percent survival rate after 10 years versus around 85 percent with radiation. With the nerve-sparing removal I'll have, what will be different for me afterwards is that I won't have a prostate and I won't have cancer. That's all that should change. I'll have quarterly PSAs for the next two years to verify it's all gone.

One of the interesting things I realized was that when I was told the biopsy results confirmed that I had cancer back on the 6th (being the D-day anniversary too will make that a bit easier for me to remember), I had become a cancer survivor. The real question became how long that survival would be. That's looking pretty good.

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