Well, it’s nearly time for the PSA roller coaster to depart the station once again. (You never get off the PSA roller coaster, you just keep riding it in never-ending loops.)
I’m not exactly sure when I’ll go to the lab—either next week (short holiday week) or the week after—but I need to get it done by the end of the month because I have an appointment with my primary care physician on 4 November, and an appointment with the urologist on 14 November. I suspect that I’ll get my seasonal flu shot while I’m at the clinic, too.
If anyone is interested, we could get a pool going to guess where the PSA test results will come in at. On 1 May 2024, it was 0.52 ng/mL. The “Trend” function on my spreadsheet has it coming in at 0.70 ng/mL using the last five PSA test results from my post-radiation nadir. My money would be on somewhere between 0.80 ng/mL and 1.0 ng/mL.
Other than that, I’m just getting ready for the palm fronds to start falling as we get deeper into autumn here in San Diego.
On a fun note, I attended both of the San Diego Padres Wild Card baseball games on 1 and 2 October, and the crowd went bonkers when we clinched the best-of-three series to win a spot in the playoffs.
We’re playing our arch nemesis, the Los Angeles Dodgers, in Game 5 of the National League Division Series tonight (Friday, 11 October) to see who advances to the National League Championship Series. (We’re tied two games apiece and the winner of tonight’s game will advance. Hope I didn’t jinx ourselves by writing about this.)
Sorry for the shaky camera work. There was so much happening all over the place, it was tough to know what to focus on.
This post originally appeared October 11, 2024, on Dan’s Journey Through prostate cancer. It is republished with permission.
