So it is Serious

I was just going over the stack of paper I had been handed during my initial stay at the hospital.

Originally, I was under the impression that the cancer had grown a tumor on my T-11 and my L-5 of my spine.  However, I read the results of the initial CT scan, this is in many places on the spine.  They were just most urgently concerned about the aforementioned joints which required the immediate application of radiation treatments.

It's noted in pelvis and femurs, left kidney, bladder, and of course the prostate.

Lungs and heart were given a clean bill of health, though the cancer is seen on multiple ribs.

Also there is a note on my right mandible, and I had been getting some pain there lately.  I was considering seeing a dentist for an impression of my TMJ.

The biopsy report concluded with "High Grade Prostatic Adenocarcinoma with Neuroendocrine Differentiation."   Dr. Burgess, tells me it's the Neuroendocrine Differentiation that's the really bad part.

And so with all said, Dr. Burgess is recommending a treatment with taxotere, and I've just called his clinic today and let them know I'm ready to receive that treatment.