Nitrateman said:
I bet he does. Hindsight is always 20-20
Keep us posted on how he's doing.
Nitrateman
Thanks for the concern, Nitrateman.
He's physically holding up to the chemo very well even though he just started. So far he's just been a little tired and had some headaches. He hasn't started losing hair though. It is very ironic that the Propecia he took (and thought was causing the nut to shrink) will actually end up CAUSING him to lose hair in a round-about way (through chemo). He's depressed, as most cancer patients are, especially since he is very picky about his personal appearance (always was tanned and shaved his body hair, was a metrosexual type guy before it became popular despite being a 230+lb football player, LOL) and he knows chemo will cause him to look a little wasted.
We expect him to beat it though, stage II seminoma is usually 95% non-fatal, and someone his age/strength (he is very strong-willed in addition to having good physical strength) should be able to do better than most. His fiance is a nurse, and is a great woman--she lives with him and she's his rock right now so he should be okay. At least we all hope so. He'll be done (hopefully) with the chemo by april, so if all goes well that will be the end of it.
This has spooked him enough for him to pull a "Lyle Alzado", though, which kind of irks me. He tried to talk me out of ever using steroids again because, in his opionon, even though steroids didn't cause his cancer, he feels that they may have excabberated the growth of the tumor/metasiticiation (he ran a few cycles from the time "they believe" the cancer began until its detection). And tried to preach to me that my use could cause any potential malignancies I may have now or in the future to grow at an accellerated rate due to my AAS use (and sometimes, abuse). Needless to say, we agreed to disagree on that
Thanks again, and guys--be careful for odd side effects concerning your nuts. Testicular cancer is (IIRC) the number one cancer in males 21-35, and with the changes in size/etc. so when cycling AAS serious problems may fly under the radar. So have your girlfriends or wives check them often--if you're lucky you might get some play out of it
