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    Cody's Health Problems

    Don, we got billed for $6,000 for something I had done concerning my prostate cancer. I called the Billing number that was on the bill and gave them all the info they asked for, including that I was on VA Community Care Network's TriWest. They looked up TriWest and told me, "absolutely don't pay...
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    Noisy Neighbors!

    We have lived in both a house, we were buying, and apartment complexes. We've encountered substantial noise from neighbors in both. We've always lived on the bottom/1st floor, but at one complex we lived in a "bungalow" which was at the end of a 2-story apartment building. We actually lived in...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    Well, Tony and Don, I don't know much about either the Total or the Free PSA labs, but we will find out more once we discuss both with the oncologist doctor on the 12th. As for myself, I pretty much leave all of the "technical/number" stuff up to doctors. They do have all of the education that...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    Unfortunately, that is the "deceiving" part of radiation therapy. A patient would think, after having 28 sessions of radiation, the PSA number would come down. However, we are really wondering what the numbers will be after I get both the PSA Free and PSA Total lab numbers back. When I talked...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    First, I done fine around Nancy's older sister when she visited last week. The only real bad thing was, wife and I ate too much and ate inside of restaurants for the couple of days she was here. She stayed at a Timeshare, not at our apartment. Tomorrow, Tuesday Sept. 2nd, will be three weeks...
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    BIL Broke His Hip

    It appears that my wife's brother will have to stay at the Rehab Home longer than he wanted to. He got out of the hospital and arrived at the Rehab Home on the 10th of August. A week from this Wednesday, he'll be there a month and he was told, at a meeting last week, that he may end up there for...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    Unfortunately, or whatever, my wife's older sister will visit us next week. We simply couldn't talk her out of it. She definitely doesn't like hearing the word "no" from anyone. She texted me and told us how excited she is to come here, but neither of us share that feeling with her. Oh well...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    I didn't take my "1" Tamsulosin yesterday AM, after breakfast, because I took "2" the day before and taking "2" without the oncologist doctors' approval isn't recommended at all. So, I read that if I did take "2", by mistake or whatever, I should not take my next dose of "1". Well, in not taking...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    As for "other medications", I'm on: Extended Release Metformin and Glipizide (AM/PM) for being a Diabetic II. I take a blood pressure med each evening. I take a cholesterol med once a week on Mondays. I do think it's the Tamsulosin though, because the rash/sores didn't start until after I...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    Another Update: BTW, this is somewhat long.........just to warn everyone. I remember the radiation tech/therapist telling me that the last two weeks of radiation were the worst on the body. However, I remember the Receptionist and my oncology doctor telling me and my wife that the first few...
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    Increase Of Teen Violence and Crime

    Mostly "big city" kids, not the farm/ranch types. The "big city" kids get so bored, so easily and what happens.............crime comes into the picture. Farm and ranch kids have responsibilities of taking care of livestock and helping do crops. We don't read, or hear about, kids in 4-H and/or...
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    How Many Childhood Friends Do You Still Have?

    My wife had a very, very long-time friend from she met in 5th grade. They done a lot of things together before each got married. Unfortunately, the friend died in 2020 from Lupus and very, very bad arthritis. Also, unfortunately, she refused any doctors care or even see one. I met Gina, and her...
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    BIL Broke His Hip

    Well, I've been around a few adult Pit Bulls that acted like puppies. We had a neighbor a few years ago that had a female Pit and it was truly friendly, at least towards me. Our only dog was a 3 year old half breed, Siberian Husky and Malamute Husky. Huskies are very friendly and not considered...
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    BIL Broke His Hip

    An Animal Control Officer came to my BIL's bed at the Rehab yesterday and told him that the dog that nipped his ankle has a record with the Animal Control Office. IOW, this isn't the first time this Pit Bull has bitten someone and there is already a record of that. Not sure if Morgan and...
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    Cody's Health Problems

    Today was my last day of radiation..............THANK GOD!! I got to ring the "Finished" bell and Nancy (my wife) took a video of that and a Tech/Therapist took a couple of pictures of Nancy and I by the bell. I got a Certificate of Completion and have a follow-up appointment on Sept. 12. Next...
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    BIL Broke His Hip

    The person who has cancer is my half brother. IOW, same father, different mother. My wife only has one brother, so I only have one BIL.
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    BIL Broke His Hip

    Talked to him this morning, Monday August 11th. He got to the Rehab Center yesterday. The place is a combo of rehab and nursing home. The food is better than at the hospital and he is getting a little more sleep than he did in the hospital. However, I remember a nurse telling me, "a hospital...
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    BIL Broke His Hip

    Yesterday, got a call from my BIL (wife's younger brother) and he is in the hospital now. Last Wednesday evening, when he got home in Baca Raton, Florida, from helping a buddy, he decided to change his shoes and put on his flip flops to get his mail from a box by the street. He rents a room in a...
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    Do you have any health problems?

    Kind of weird, but my last VA doctor thought I had a UTI after she seen my PSA number after labs I took last year. She prescribed me an antibiotic, but my problem wasn't UTI, it was the prostate cancer. I don't have that VA doctor anymore. Just after I started my radiation therapy, I spoke to...
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    Do you have any health problems?

    I know exactly how you feel, Tony. I drink a full bottle of water before we leave home and another one while heading to radiation. Since my appointments have been at 10:10 AM, I eat nothing before we leave at 9:30AM. This coming Monday (August 11th) I do my last radiation treatment and get to...
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