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Post Radiation PSA
First PSA blood test post radiation is in normal range. Down to 3.5 from 4.3. The chance of a complete cure with radiation for the stage of prostate cancer I have (had) is 85-90%. Side effects from treatment are subsiding. Should mention, a brush with cancer helps with focusing on the important things in life.
Henry IV
"The better part of valour is discretion" We went to a production of Henry IV yesterday. Read somewhere that the Falstaff character was resurrected for future plays because the Queen of England enjoyed the part and asked Shakespeare to bring him back. The actor playing Falstaff must have stolen the show in the original production as he did in Dallas.
How old do you have to be......
All children, except one, grow up. Peter Pan Opening words As Nancy and I were leaving the supermarket today she asked "Since my recent birthday, was I now too old to ride shopping carts through the parking lot?" The answer is an unequivocal no . Next time you see an old guy with graying hair and beard coasting through the supermarket parking lot on the back of a cart full of groceries, put one foot on your cart and give a hard push with the other foot. And, coast over to just say to hi or even better, challenge me to race.
Time travel
Some of you might not identify this if you came across it just south of downtown Hico. Others will recognize it as an old loading chute for loading or unloading livestock into or out of trucks. To me it is a time machine back to the 1950s. Drove past this recently and was immediately 8 years old again. Every Wednesday in the 50s and into the 60s this chute was where livestock were loaded or unloaded for the auction that day. There were dozens of adjoining pens and a barn. The barn was set up with a pen (auction ring) for herding livestock in one gate and out another. There was a raised semi enclosed area for an auctioner on one side of the ring and about 3 rows of bleachers on the other side for the buyers and sellers. On sale day when had stock to be sold, my dad and sometimes my grandfather would load up a few head of calves into a two wheel trailer or the back of a the pick up truck which had cattle frames. At this time many of the ...