Hismones 8/29/25

"Your results may vary." My daily routine continues and I'd prefer it were boring rather than challenging at this point. I am taking Psillium (sp.?) and a Probiotic in the hopes that my digestive tract will calm, but I am still having 3-4 bowel movements daily (my PR is 5 before lunch), often with very little warning. Hot flashes continue around the clock, but not severe and are sometimes followed by feeling chilled. Daily strenuous exercise helps a bit with combating fatigue, but I still have to take projects around the house in very small bits and accept slow progress. Just when I think I've found a good combination of dosing and application to use a Trimix injection for ED, I experience a dull ache and that its effect subsiding is unpredictably short or long. The addition of Myrbetriq for urinary frequency hasn't made a difference, yet. I've reached out to my PCP to inquire about a program of diabetes prevention training and education provided by Medicare because my weight continues to climb (I've gained 30 back of the 40 I lost during Covid season), and I'm pretty sure that trading prostate cancer treatment success for diabetes isn't a desirable outcome. So I'm both happy and jealous when I talk with a friend who is also currently taking hormone therapy and claims he has little or no side effects. In the plus column...I had a very fun experience in Austin recently, singing with about 350 fellow church musicians for a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Singing Men of Texas (I joined two years after its founding.). We stayed with a fellow member of my Baylor freshman class and his wife, retired missionaries to Europe. It was great to reconnect and catch up with our stories. My wife and I are looking forward to join two other couples, all of us having known each other in church 40+ years, for a September vacation week in east Tennessee near Dollywood, and the two of us are planning to visit friends in Florida in November. Our girls and their families joined us last weekend to celebrate my birthday, and among their gifts I now have a motion-sensing video recording bird feeder outside the kitchen window. I finished PT for my thumb surgery, and while the specific pain in that area is gone, I have a short list of exercises to continue strengthening grip and increasing flexibility. I have a blood test next week to gauge PSA progress during treatment. All in all, life is survivable and my wife, other family, and friends are a great support team. God is good, even when circumstances seem a bit inconvenient.