My Diet(?) and Exercise Program (LOL)

[DALederle]

Creg:
We have trailers here that are 53' long. The trucking companies are pushing as many of these on the road as they can. I've even some of these really big ones being used around town for local deliveries. Getting into and out of the docks are a nightmare.
Local trucks with under 40' are prefered by the drivers but the execs don't care about their drivers oppinions.

Dennis A. Lederle

I never did drive a semi but I had a "C" class license that let me drive buses and straight jobs up to forty feet so I know a little bit about pushing the loads around. Don'e even want to think about that anymore!


Grok?

[Kirbstone]

Re: 'Supercube' trucks: These are allowed on Irish roads, are not too high to pass under normal motorway bridges, but are excluded from tunnels, which were and are constructed here to an operating height of 4.65 meters, or 15 foot 3.7 inches. On Continental Europe most tunnels are lower than this...4.5 meters, and there is a move Europe wide to restrict truck height to 4 meters.

[DALederle]

I had to give up my bike riding for two weeks due to medical test on my prostrate. So I just started back today!!
Oh, my God! One mile and eleven minutes was all I could do. Then I started feeling shakey and felt that that was a good sign to get off at that point.
My breathing soesn't let me ride straight through. I have to stop every 2-3 minutes to let my breathing catch up while I'm on a ride. Glad at those times that I'm not on a real ride outside the house. I'd hate to have finished my goal but still be miles from home at that point. That is the blessing to indoor exercise equipment!
At any rate, I'm back for now until some other doctor wants to tell me not while he does more tests.
I hate the start of each new year, just becaus all the doctora want to check me out for the start of the year.
As much as I know its for my own good it still bothers me!!!!!!!
But that's just me, an old fuddy-dud!


Dennis A. Lederle
Grok?

[Kirbstone]

I follow your fitness regime with interest, Dennis. I suppose those tests on your prostate left you sore in that area. Best to have as few tests as you can get away with.....Interfering people, these Medics ! Keep up the indoor biking, though.

Tom K.

[DALederle]

Well, I now know the results of my prostrate test! I have prostrate cancer!
I am bummed out to say the least.
My wife is coming with me on Friday to talk to the doctor about what I can expect and what we can do.
On a positive note (if there can be one about this) is my other doctor (whom my wife works for, a pneumonologist) has told her that of all cancers, this the cancer to get as this is the one most treatable. So I guess I'll see what the urologist has to say before I make up my mind about just how bummed out I should be.
I was hoping that I had all the bad news, this year, over with. But I guess there's one more thing I need to get through now.
I got through having a kidney removed and then having congestive heart failure and I'm still here. But my breathing is much worse then what it once was, when I had the kidney out. I lose track of how much medical problems I've had after a while. Six eye surgeries, gall bladder (back in 1980 when it was still a big operation), two hernias, all my lower teeth removed in one shot because of cysts and abscesses, pnuemonia stays, etc. I almost dread any doctor appoinments now!
That doesn't count all the time I spent as a child, with measles, mumps and chicken pox. That includes being exposed to scarlet fever and polio, that and my cousins came down with rigiht after we played together. That was what I would call close ones. And I woke during the hernia operations when I was 5 & 6 and saw myself opened up! Nightmares for years from those two.
The worst part is that might mean I have to give up my exercise bike.
That's about the only thing I can do with my limited breathing to keep up any decent conditioning at all. I'll have to try my wife's treadmill. But that is usually to hard for me to do enough to get any benefit from.
Well, I'll have more to say about this after Friday.
Today it's just a bummer!

Hey, Don't Cry For Me Argentina!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dennis A. Lederle
Grok?

[Gregg1100]

Sorry to hear your news Dennis, but as your other doc says, it is the most treatable, so don't give up.
Greg

[Big and Bashful]

Dennis,
It looks like about time your luck turned for the better, you must be due some good luck.
As they say, prostrate cancer is one of the most treatable ones these days. I have a friend who was treated for it a few years ago, he is going strong now at the grand old age of 82. Still sailing as well. I just hope I am as healthy as he is when I reach that age!

[crfriend]

Geez, Dennis, you just don't seem to draw any breaks. I'm awfully sorry to hear of your latest plight, but as has been mentioned prostate cancer is both easily treatable and slow-progressing.

What do the assorted medical professionals think of your progress on the bike? General physical activity and fitness can help stave off lots of "bad stuff".

[Kirbstone]

OK Dennis, Prostate cancer is always bad news, but not so very bad after all. Nowadays the vast majority of them are treated and controlled by hormones and drugs, not surgery. I have several friends now who are living with it and are fine, really. Fact is, something else will probably get you before the cancer. Cheerful thought. A hormone they frequently use for this is the female sex hormone, oestrogen, which usually alters the distribution of fat in the body, piling more around the hips, but that is a small price to pay for years of relief from symptoms.

The very last thing you must give up is your exercise bike !

My very best rowing friend who is just two months my junior and still competing regularly has had two encounters with cancer. Both required surgery. In 1997 he passed blood in his urine and had a nephrectomy the following Tuesday, as a scan revealed a cauliflower-like malignant growth on one of his kidneys. He recovered from this sufficiently to win a sculling gold medal at the World Masters' Regatta in Hamburg, September 2004.
As luck would have it in 2005 a scan revealed a new primary cancer in a lung and he again had to have surgery, this time to remove half of one lung. Because of the open-chest nature of this there were initially some cardiac rhythm problems during his recovery.
Today he is as fit as a flea and a formidable opponent on the water, I am very happy to say.

Tom K.

[DALederle]

Okay! Did the consultation with my urologist and next week I go seek a radiologist about radiation therapy. It is a moderate stage cancer and with my COPD and heart problems I am NOT a candidate for surgery. But the doctor thinks that everything will be fine. He said I will die from the COPD or heart failure long before prostrate cancer gets me.
So I guess that's sort of good news.
And I can still ride my exercise bike!
Yeah!
The bike had nothing to do, NADA, with the cancer. I should stop taken my Andro-gel (testosterone) therapy. Testosterone is the last thing a patient with prostrate cancer needs. But the rest is up to my Radiation Therapist and an undecided oncologist that I will have to see. Which means I have to make appts. now with my Primary Care Phy. and my other doctors to include everyone in my program!
So that's all I know for now!

Dennis A. Lederle
Grok?

[PatJ]

Dennis,

Sorry to hear about your troubles, "He said I will die from the COPD or heart failure long before prostrate cancer gets me."

Your situation kind of reminds me of that old song they used to sing on Hee Haw,

"Gloom despair and agony on me
Deep dark depression excessive misery
If it weren’t for bad luck I’d have no luck at all,
Gloom despair and agony on me."

I tried to make the font blue for the words, because bad news makes on feel blue. Hang in there, and keep us posted as to how you are doing.

PatJ

[DALederle]

Returned to my exercise bike today! First time in two weeks since all the med tests began. Made 2.14 miles in 20 minutes and it felt good. But I did notice that it felt like I was starting over as far as the amount of rest I had to take during the ride. About once every 2-3 minutes of riding. That's an advantage of a stationary bike. I can stop for a moment until the pain goes away.
Discovered it's not my breathing that stops me. Tested myself with my new PulseOximeter meter and found the I was over 90% to 95% blood oxygen level during the ride. So the ache I feel as I ride must be muscle fatigue and not a breathing problem as I always thought it was. I have a blood pressure monitor too and my test was 120/75/67 today, which according to charts is pretty good.
I feel good today too! A friend is coming over and we are all going out to see the movie The Eagle. Maybe I'll review it later. I feel pretty good right now. Not that I'm not still worried, its just that I've pushed it out of my mind until I get over this next week's round of doctor's visists.

Dennis A. Lederle
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[hydroman47]

It's amazing how we can take a few days off with an exercise program and it feels like we have just started. If we take too long, we have to rebuild our habit of exercise just being part of our daily routine.

Rusty