@Ken Anderson "I just can't have iodized salt" Suspected as much. I, too, crave salty taste in a lot of my food. I think the recently-introduced "Sea-Salt" stuff is likely pretty devoid of Iodine, but not certain. Seawater has every mineral known in it, plus likely some known only on other planets. You just get through this flying green flags, hear? We are supportive as much as internet strangers can be........
Okay, I'm back home again and finally off of the low-iodine diet. I was looking forward to a Chick-fil-A breakfast burrito this morning before coming home, and it wasn't until I was on the way there that I remembered that today is Sunday, and Chick-fil-A isn't open on Sundays. Darn! It's been years since I've had a Chick-fil-A breakfast burrito. Oh well, we're calling out for pizza tonight.
Nothing too demonstrable from the older ones, which didn't surprise me, but Cutie has been purring loudly. Ella is noticeably glad to see me. She heard me drive up and was in the window, then at the door when I got to it.
I came back to this thread after following another thread where some brave women were talking about researching breast cancer after being diagnosed, and I thought back to my first bout with cancer. I don't already know everything there is to know medical, but I can understand much of it, so I wanted to research prostate cancer, particularly so that I could make an informed decision on which treatment to go with. As mentioned above, I bought a couple of books on prostate cancer, including one that was about a thousand pages long. However, I soon found that every available treatment horrified me, and the more I read about it, the more scared I became. So I never read those books, other than to note the statistics that showed a better than 90% success rate for each. At that point, unwilling to learn enough to make a truly informed opinion, my chief concern was that I did not want a urinary catheter. I was catheterized when I had a strangulated hernia and that was, by far, the most painful thing I have ever experienced. So, of the choices given to me, I chose radiation alone. When I went in so that they could map the area out and tattoo the spot, or something, the first thing they did was to come out with the urinary catheter, and again, I have never experienced anything more painful.
As far as I know, the gamma cameras and kin are a pretty safe and effective way to go for most prostate cancers.
So far. I just had some blood drawn a couple of weeks ago for that purpose, and my doctor hasn't called me about it, so I'm assuming that it's good.