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Mike Vogel
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Hello all,

I don't expect to be posting much for the next few weeks. Radiotherapy every afternoon till July [2 hours travelling for 2 minutes RT] and exam marking every evening.

Treatment so far has been going very well. I have been able to get onto my plot as usual and also rotavate someone else's allotment and dig the bits of it that can't be efficiently rotavated. Time will be in short supply, but not energy. I don't experience the tiredness they warn you about and the only reaction to the hormone treatment is the occasional hot flush. I know everyone is different, but I suspect that the healthier you and your life-style are to begin with [all that home-grown veg!], the easier it is to take non-complicated prostate cancer and its treatment in your stride.

See you all [in print anyway] in July.
Best wishes

mike
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Hope all goes well with the treatment Mike.
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Sending warm wishes to you Mike....hope all goes well for you
Lots of love

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Dear Mike, hope all goes well and i do admire your very positive attitude.
Looking forward to having you back in July.

Take care for now.
Kind Regards, Old Herbaceous.

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All the best Mike. Hope all goes well.

Cheers, Parsons Jack.
Cheers PJ.

I'm just off down the greenhouse. I won't be long...........
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Best wishes !!

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With your positive outlook Mike you are sure to live to be 100 - or more ! Warmest wishes for a speedy recovery
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I also send best wishes to you Mike and know that having a positive frame of mind is the best way to get through it. Good luck.
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All the best! Will be thinking of you.
Regards, Monika
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All the best. Did you do chemo before radio? My wife is on her third cycle of chemo after breast cancer lumpectomy and it knocks her out.
I have a nephew works for Amgen in California and this cycle she had an extra injection to try and reduce the side effects which turned out to be an Amgen drug he had developed, small world.
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Mike

Good luck, I guess you could say that this is a pain in the proverbial, but you will be well and planting winter Brassica's before you know it

Very Best Wishes

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Best wishes Mike, I will be thinking of you.

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Good luck Mike, we'll keep the forum ticking over until you return :wink:
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wishing you well Mike :)
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Hope everything goes well, Mike.
Dymuniadau gorau - Best wishes.
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