Thank you all for the birthday wishes yesterday.
However, today is a more important anniversary to me. It is the sixth anniversary of my cancer diagnosis. I didn't really expect to make it three years, let alone six.
Today is also notable because I went in for my latest quarterly labs&scans. The results are:
Lymph node mets: no significant changes (good news)
Bone mets: no new or worsening lesions (good news)
PSA is <0.01 (excellent news)
I have lots of gripes due to treatments and medications and side effects, and some of them are slowly getting worse, but I have no new gripes. The cancer remains well controlled. I am very happy about that.
I have been enrolled in the CHAARTED2 clinical trial since November 2020, and it will stop tracking patients this coming November, but so long as nothing significant changes with my health before then, the plan is to continue with my current medications and my current testing program. Next year could be a whole other story. It is too soon to think about that.
I am glad to be surviving.
I am proud to continue to push the survival stats higher.
Every morning I wake up, I remind myself: "This is a bonus day. Make the most of it."