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I call them bubbles because I could see through them and see people in the room. I was talking about life in Thailand while she worked and we weren’t two minutes in when I said, “Whoa, something’s not right,” and my vision was filled with what seemed like millions of bubbles floating through the room.
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The nurse replaced the prep medications with the chemo drugs. I went to the clinic, got hooked up and the prep medications (mostly to prevent nausea) were given. The first drug cocktail stopped working in mid-November 2020. My oncologist said we should end the main drug in my cocktail and replace it with another drug that did basically the same thing (reduce my testosterone).Īfter waiting a couple of weeks for the first drug to clear out of my system, I started a new drug. USA TODAY Opinion: Get more insights and analysis in your inbox with our newsletter Late 2020 There are tumors in my legs, hips and pelvis, spine and sternum, arms, and finally, my skull.ĭespite all that, thanks to the wonders of chemistry and drugs, I was pretty much back to “normal”. I asked how many tumors I have, if it was “more than two but less than five.” The answer was much more than five but not specific. I started the treatment plan not really knowing how widespread the cancer was. I cut back on the painkillers, and within six weeks or so I stopped taking them completely.
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Within days of starting the cocktail, I was back to walking and working pain free. I started a drug cocktail in October 2019: an injection every six months combined with five pills taken at bedtime to fight the cancer, a monthly injection to restore bone health lost to the cancer, and a handful of over-the-counter pills to battle the side effects of the anti-cancer meds. He also told me to consider the cancer a chronic disease, like diabetes, that would be with me until I died. He said it had spread so much that surgery to remove the prostate would be ineffective – there was too much cancer to treat with radiation, although some individual tumors might be treatable with radiation. My oncologist confirmed what others said: I have stage IV prostate cancer, and the bone scan showed it has metastasized. In a matter of days, I was starting to walk again. That shot was nothing short of miraculous. He gave me a shot that he said would restore some mobility and reduce the pain. When I saw the urologist later in the week, he confirmed the diagnosis, ordered a bone scan and set me up with an oncologist. The painkillers worked, but I was still unable to walk or work (because being a photojournalist means spending a lot of time on your feet and walking). She gave me another prescription for painkillers.Ī test for cancer could save your life: Here's why you can't get the breakthrough screening. Two days later, I saw the urologist’s nurse practitioner, who said that based on the CT scan and my PSA score, I had prostate cancer.