Learn your limits early on, I was, and still am, frustrated as my body isn't recovering as quickly as I want but not a worry for the doctors as at 'my age' it is normal to take just that little bit longer.
Stopped me going out on my volunteer work at a time when the group was changing, also stopped me completing another project with some railway modelling friends.
Yes
I wanted the cancer gone! As it was contained I didn't want to put up with the comprehensive list of side effects from other treatments especially radiotherapy and the drugs and timescales involved. RARP was my first thought and nothing altered that even though I did give full consideration to all the other treatments on offer.
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