Hello Friends, It seemed like my Muse had deserted me in the last few days. I am feeling heartbroken because a precious member of our community, Beverly Brown -- who has been a pillar of a popular online prostate cancer support group for years -- has been afflicted. Sorely. And when one of us suffers, [...]
A bit of black spandex with a woman attached to it. 110 lbs., maybe. Blonde curly hair, nice face, slim, bronzed, freckled. This is Dear Husband's (DH) new "girlfriend". I'll call her "Irene". Irene has attached herself to Ted, like crazy glue! She's a friend of a friend; that's how we got to know her. And [...]
I am going to let you in on my hottest tips for finding good doctors, based on what I've learned since the onset of my husband's illness. Yes, the hardest thing of all was finding a good ED doc! So I am going to put special emphasis on sniffing out the "sexperts". Note that this list is very idiosyncratic, and also that resources vary from [...]
Dear All, I have been revisiting the issue of salvage radiation therapy (RT) since Ted just began this treatment last week. There isn't a lot of good data (only "retrospective" data) about this, so when I first tackled this subject a few months ago I decided I was better off "reading the tea leaves". But [...]
Dendritic cells are replenished from blood Dendritic cells help direct the body’s immune response by presenting invading antigens to T cells so they know what to attack. But an ongoing debate exists about where dendritic cells originate and how they multiply, especially in the spleen and lymph system. Now, in a paper published in this [...]