Dear Ryan,
Great news!
On May 25 we sent 320 letters to people who had previously given for equipment, offering opportunity to help provide $32,000 needed to cover the purchase cost of direct-to-plate equipment for our Pre-press department (including shipping from Arizona).
I was delighted June 8 to learn that God had already provided $21,472.
I emailed that information June 8 to another friend of WMP who enquired as to the status of this need, and on June 9 he emailed that “a check for the balance is in the mail.”
Praise God for such quick provision through His people!
The equipment is already safely here. God is FAITHFUL! God is so good!
Production pace slowed
Though we’ve been producing 6,000,000 booklets per month this fiscal year (October through May), in June we decided to slow production to 5,000,000 because of financial constraints. But God has moved--allowing us to pick up the pace for the rest of June to as close to the 6,000,000 level as we can print. Praise God! Please pray that God will strengthen our hand to enable steady or increased production July through September.
Kreyol New Testaments
On June 15, WHME-TV broadcast live interviews from World Missionary Press, focusing on production of 90,000 more Kreyol New Testaments with Psalms and Basic Study Supplement for use in Haiti. About 5,000 of the testaments will go soon with Feed the Hungry/LeSea, who shot the interviews to include in the WHME-TV “Harvest Today” program. The Haitian Bible Society has requested 15,000 testaments (in lieu of royalty payment), and will distribute them free.
Fred & Betsy Eiler Services
If you live in Indiana, it would be great if you could visit one of these churches to meet Fred and Betsy Eiler, our dynamic and warm-spirited Field Reps, as they share WMP ministry:
June 20 am: Warsaw Wesleyan, Warsaw, Indiana (9:00 and 10:00)
June 20 pm: Clay Street Amish Mennonite Church, Bourbon, Indiana (7:00)
June 27 am: Believer’s Fellowship, Middlebury, Indiana (10:30)
Your involvement with the worldwide ministry of World Missionary Press is deeply appreciated. Together we are touching millions of lives with the powerful, life-transforming Word of God. THANK YOU!
Your friend in Christ,
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
God's Quick Provision/God Has Moved
Dear Ryan,
Great news!
On May 25 we sent 320 letters to people who had previously given for equipment, offering opportunity to help provide $32,000 needed to cover the purchase cost of direct-to-plate equipment for our Pre-press department (including shipping from Arizona).
I was delighted June 8 to learn that God had already provided $21,472.
I emailed that information June 8 to another friend of WMP who enquired as to the status of this need, and on June 9 he emailed that “a check for the balance is in the mail.”
Praise God for such quick provision through His people!
The equipment is already safely here. God is FAITHFUL! God is so good!
Production pace slowed
Though we’ve been producing 6,000,000 booklets per month this fiscal year (October through May), in June we decided to slow production to 5,000,000 because of financial constraints. But God has moved--allowing us to pick up the pace for the rest of June to as close to the 6,000,000 level as we can print. Praise God! Please pray that God will strengthen our hand to enable steady or increased production July through September.
Kreyol New Testaments
On June 15, WHME-TV broadcast live interviews from World Missionary Press, focusing on production of 90,000 more Kreyol New Testaments with Psalms and Basic Study Supplement for use in Haiti. About 5,000 of the testaments will go soon with Feed the Hungry/LeSea, who shot the interviews to include in the WHME-TV “Harvest Today” program. The Haitian Bible Society has requested 15,000 testaments (in lieu of royalty payment), and will distribute them free.
Fred & Betsy Eiler Services
If you live in Indiana, it would be great if you could visit one of these churches to meet Fred and Betsy Eiler, our dynamic and warm-spirited Field Reps, as they share WMP ministry:
June 20 am: Warsaw Wesleyan, Warsaw, Indiana (9:00 and 10:00)
June 20 pm: Clay Street Amish Mennonite Church, Bourbon, Indiana (7:00)
June 27 am: Believer’s Fellowship, Middlebury, Indiana (10:30)
Your involvement with the worldwide ministry of World Missionary Press is deeply appreciated. Together we are touching millions of lives with the powerful, life-transforming Word of God. THANK YOU!
Your friend in Christ,
Great news!
On May 25 we sent 320 letters to people who had previously given for equipment, offering opportunity to help provide $32,000 needed to cover the purchase cost of direct-to-plate equipment for our Pre-press department (including shipping from Arizona).
I was delighted June 8 to learn that God had already provided $21,472.
I emailed that information June 8 to another friend of WMP who enquired as to the status of this need, and on June 9 he emailed that “a check for the balance is in the mail.”
Praise God for such quick provision through His people!
The equipment is already safely here. God is FAITHFUL! God is so good!
Production pace slowed
Though we’ve been producing 6,000,000 booklets per month this fiscal year (October through May), in June we decided to slow production to 5,000,000 because of financial constraints. But God has moved--allowing us to pick up the pace for the rest of June to as close to the 6,000,000 level as we can print. Praise God! Please pray that God will strengthen our hand to enable steady or increased production July through September.
Kreyol New Testaments
On June 15, WHME-TV broadcast live interviews from World Missionary Press, focusing on production of 90,000 more Kreyol New Testaments with Psalms and Basic Study Supplement for use in Haiti. About 5,000 of the testaments will go soon with Feed the Hungry/LeSea, who shot the interviews to include in the WHME-TV “Harvest Today” program. The Haitian Bible Society has requested 15,000 testaments (in lieu of royalty payment), and will distribute them free.
Fred & Betsy Eiler Services
If you live in Indiana, it would be great if you could visit one of these churches to meet Fred and Betsy Eiler, our dynamic and warm-spirited Field Reps, as they share WMP ministry:
June 20 am: Warsaw Wesleyan, Warsaw, Indiana (9:00 and 10:00)
June 20 pm: Clay Street Amish Mennonite Church, Bourbon, Indiana (7:00)
June 27 am: Believer’s Fellowship, Middlebury, Indiana (10:30)
Your involvement with the worldwide ministry of World Missionary Press is deeply appreciated. Together we are touching millions of lives with the powerful, life-transforming Word of God. THANK YOU!
Your friend in Christ,
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
AFRICAN TRACTS
Dear Ryan,
Recent shipments to several African countries have begun arriving. Africa in particular has been plagued with corruption in government agencies and our shipments have at times been “held ransom” for unreasonable customs, processing, or other charges. Please be in prayer especially for these African shipments over the next few weeks:
Burundi – 2,610 boxes (1,258,200 Scripture portions)
Cameroon – 2,570 boxes (907,770 Scripture portions)
Central African Republic – 4,140 boxes (1,674,170 Scripture portions)
Burkina Faso – 560 boxes (203,500 Scripture portions)
Benin – 1,428 boxes (567,730 Scripture portions)
Ivory Coast – 4,215 boxes (1,452,875 Scripture portions, plus 28,000 French New Testaments)
Democratic Republic of the Congo – 4,204 boxes (1,709,441 Scripture portions)
Zambia – 4,216 boxes (1,958,430 Scripture portions)
Uganda – 4,213 boxes (1,643,795 Scripture portions)
Liberia/Guinea – 4,199 boxes (1,742,600 Scripture portions)
South Africa – 4,216 boxes (2,079,975 Scripture portions)
Of special note –
1) The Cameroon shipment is at the port, and our coordinator is doing battle with the shipping agency and government officials there; for this shipment, we have an agreement through our U.S. shipping agent for fixed clearing and onforwarding costs; the agency in Cameroon is not happy that they are being held to this agreement; please pray for Brother Aloma (our coordinator).
2) The DR Congo shipment is about to arrive; our last experience with sending to DRC was VERY EXPENSIVE because of (what I believe to be) corruption charges; our coordinator there Brother Sita is arming up with documentation, funds, and experience – to hopefully make the reception of the container go more smoothly this time.
3) The Burundi shipment seems to be stalled; our coordinator Brother Evariste has recently been recovering from malaria; he assures me that everything is proceeding smoothly, the container is enroute to Bujumbura, but I have not heard back from him in the past week.
4) The rest of the above shipments are also subject to whims of officials, dangers on the road, etc.
Thanks for praying! And thank you for your interest in the ongoing ministry of World Missionary Press.
Harold Mack, Director of Global Distribution
World Missionary Press, Inc.
PO Box 120
New Paris, IN 46553
Email: mailroom@wmpress.org
Please consider forwarding this message to a friend whose heart is in tune with God’s Word and work. / If you would rather not receive WMP updates and prayer concerns of this kind, please unsubscribe here. / Visit our website at http://www.wmpress.org.
Recent shipments to several African countries have begun arriving. Africa in particular has been plagued with corruption in government agencies and our shipments have at times been “held ransom” for unreasonable customs, processing, or other charges. Please be in prayer especially for these African shipments over the next few weeks:
Burundi – 2,610 boxes (1,258,200 Scripture portions)
Cameroon – 2,570 boxes (907,770 Scripture portions)
Central African Republic – 4,140 boxes (1,674,170 Scripture portions)
Burkina Faso – 560 boxes (203,500 Scripture portions)
Benin – 1,428 boxes (567,730 Scripture portions)
Ivory Coast – 4,215 boxes (1,452,875 Scripture portions, plus 28,000 French New Testaments)
Democratic Republic of the Congo – 4,204 boxes (1,709,441 Scripture portions)
Zambia – 4,216 boxes (1,958,430 Scripture portions)
Uganda – 4,213 boxes (1,643,795 Scripture portions)
Liberia/Guinea – 4,199 boxes (1,742,600 Scripture portions)
South Africa – 4,216 boxes (2,079,975 Scripture portions)
Of special note –
1) The Cameroon shipment is at the port, and our coordinator is doing battle with the shipping agency and government officials there; for this shipment, we have an agreement through our U.S. shipping agent for fixed clearing and onforwarding costs; the agency in Cameroon is not happy that they are being held to this agreement; please pray for Brother Aloma (our coordinator).
2) The DR Congo shipment is about to arrive; our last experience with sending to DRC was VERY EXPENSIVE because of (what I believe to be) corruption charges; our coordinator there Brother Sita is arming up with documentation, funds, and experience – to hopefully make the reception of the container go more smoothly this time.
3) The Burundi shipment seems to be stalled; our coordinator Brother Evariste has recently been recovering from malaria; he assures me that everything is proceeding smoothly, the container is enroute to Bujumbura, but I have not heard back from him in the past week.
4) The rest of the above shipments are also subject to whims of officials, dangers on the road, etc.
Thanks for praying! And thank you for your interest in the ongoing ministry of World Missionary Press.
Harold Mack, Director of Global Distribution
World Missionary Press, Inc.
PO Box 120
New Paris, IN 46553
Email: mailroom@wmpress.org
Please consider forwarding this message to a friend whose heart is in tune with God’s Word and work. / If you would rather not receive WMP updates and prayer concerns of this kind, please unsubscribe here. / Visit our website at http://www.wmpress.org.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Dear Ryan,
Thank you for your prayers in behalf of on-going financial needs at World Missionary Press.
As of the morning of February 24, we were yet about $70,000 below income budget for February. And during the first four months of our fiscal year—October through January—we received $451,289 less than income budget.
But God knew in advance what our income would be during those months, so He provided a large gift at the end of September, 2009, which has enabled us to maintain our production budget of 6 million booklet equivalency each month this fiscal year in spite of below-budget income.
On February 22 our Volunteer Advisory Study Group (VASG) met, the staff group that studies our financial situation and then counsels what level of production we should realistically aim for, and decided that we needed to slow production from 6 million per month to 5 million per month for March and April.
We never like to move in that direction.
But God . . . .
But God intervened February 24 by hand-delivering an estate settlement in the amount of $362,500! We rejoice for the man whose heart was in tune with God’s Word and God’s work at World Missionary Press, motivating him to designate WMP as a beneficiary of his estate. What a blessing he is! What an awesome impact he will have in millions of lives through the power of God’s Word made possible through his gift!
How our hearts rejoice! We will not need to slow production after all for the time being! God’s timing is perfect. God’s provision is amazing!
Your involvement in the worldwide ministry of World Missionary Press is deeply appreciated!
The need before us for producing more and more of God’s Word is great. We continue to plan emergency printings for HAITI and are beginning to print inside CHINA once again. Plans were in the works for production of two containers for CHILE when the earthquakes struck there. We will continue to respond to needs as God makes it possible through gifts and prayers of His people.
May God bless you with His joy and peace.
Your friend in Christ,
Thank you for your prayers in behalf of on-going financial needs at World Missionary Press.
As of the morning of February 24, we were yet about $70,000 below income budget for February. And during the first four months of our fiscal year—October through January—we received $451,289 less than income budget.
But God knew in advance what our income would be during those months, so He provided a large gift at the end of September, 2009, which has enabled us to maintain our production budget of 6 million booklet equivalency each month this fiscal year in spite of below-budget income.
On February 22 our Volunteer Advisory Study Group (VASG) met, the staff group that studies our financial situation and then counsels what level of production we should realistically aim for, and decided that we needed to slow production from 6 million per month to 5 million per month for March and April.
We never like to move in that direction.
But God . . . .
But God intervened February 24 by hand-delivering an estate settlement in the amount of $362,500! We rejoice for the man whose heart was in tune with God’s Word and God’s work at World Missionary Press, motivating him to designate WMP as a beneficiary of his estate. What a blessing he is! What an awesome impact he will have in millions of lives through the power of God’s Word made possible through his gift!
How our hearts rejoice! We will not need to slow production after all for the time being! God’s timing is perfect. God’s provision is amazing!
Your involvement in the worldwide ministry of World Missionary Press is deeply appreciated!
The need before us for producing more and more of God’s Word is great. We continue to plan emergency printings for HAITI and are beginning to print inside CHINA once again. Plans were in the works for production of two containers for CHILE when the earthquakes struck there. We will continue to respond to needs as God makes it possible through gifts and prayers of His people.
May God bless you with His joy and peace.
Your friend in Christ,
Monday, February 1, 2010
MISSIONARY POSITIONS
BBC World News Reports:
US missionaries 'knew they were doing wrong' in Haiti
New Life Children's Refuge members (top L-R) Drew Culberth, Steve McMullen, Silas Thompson, Paul Thompson, Jim Allen (bottom L-R) identity unknown and Carla Thompson at a police station in Port-au-Prince on 31 January
The missionaries say they did not know they were doing anything wrong
Haiti's prime minister has criticised 10 US missionaries who were arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-hit country.
Max Bellerive told the Associated Press news agency that they "knew what they were doing was wrong".
He said some of the children had parents who were alive, and that the government was trying to locate them.
Mr Bellerive added that his country was open to having the Americans tried in the United States.
He said a judicial system needed to determine whether the five men and five women from an Idaho-based Christian group were acting in good faith - as they have claimed - or were child traffickers.
A Haitian judge had been expected to decide on Monday whether the Americans had a case to answer, but the matter was postponed for 24 hours because of a lack of interpreters for the Americans.
The 10 have been held since Friday when they tried to enter the Dominican Republic with the children.
They insist the children have no living parents and were being taken to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
They say they were unaware they had done anything wrong and believed they had been given the right paperwork to take the children out of the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8491996.stm
US missionaries 'knew they were doing wrong' in Haiti
New Life Children's Refuge members (top L-R) Drew Culberth, Steve McMullen, Silas Thompson, Paul Thompson, Jim Allen (bottom L-R) identity unknown and Carla Thompson at a police station in Port-au-Prince on 31 January
The missionaries say they did not know they were doing anything wrong
Haiti's prime minister has criticised 10 US missionaries who were arrested as they tried to take 33 Haitian children out of the earthquake-hit country.
Max Bellerive told the Associated Press news agency that they "knew what they were doing was wrong".
He said some of the children had parents who were alive, and that the government was trying to locate them.
Mr Bellerive added that his country was open to having the Americans tried in the United States.
He said a judicial system needed to determine whether the five men and five women from an Idaho-based Christian group were acting in good faith - as they have claimed - or were child traffickers.
A Haitian judge had been expected to decide on Monday whether the Americans had a case to answer, but the matter was postponed for 24 hours because of a lack of interpreters for the Americans.
The 10 have been held since Friday when they tried to enter the Dominican Republic with the children.
They insist the children have no living parents and were being taken to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic.
They say they were unaware they had done anything wrong and believed they had been given the right paperwork to take the children out of the country.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8491996.stm
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
if there was a way to read this
If there was a way to read this, I may explain it here. If there is no one, singular way to read my posts, than you should disregard.
I hope this disclaimer does not bother you, the reader, all that much.
I was just talking about how I set myself up in ways that I don't have to remember things. In short, my method involves following certain behavioral patterns and then simply forgetting things because I only have to know what I would have done rather than remember what I actually did. For instance: where I placed a pack of cigarettes or an important piece of paper...I don't need to even think about all the places it could be. I just need to think about where I have to go and it will be there. If I am at a girlfriend's house, the cigarettes will not be on the floor behind the bed or the shelf near the radiator. they did not fall off the desk into the paper infinity and I most certainly did not leave them on outside! it would be out of character! They have had to been in the place where i will most definately look once more. They must have been inside of the coat i left there. yes. they must be. I actually asked. they are there.
I hope this disclaimer does not bother you, the reader, all that much.
I was just talking about how I set myself up in ways that I don't have to remember things. In short, my method involves following certain behavioral patterns and then simply forgetting things because I only have to know what I would have done rather than remember what I actually did. For instance: where I placed a pack of cigarettes or an important piece of paper...I don't need to even think about all the places it could be. I just need to think about where I have to go and it will be there. If I am at a girlfriend's house, the cigarettes will not be on the floor behind the bed or the shelf near the radiator. they did not fall off the desk into the paper infinity and I most certainly did not leave them on outside! it would be out of character! They have had to been in the place where i will most definately look once more. They must have been inside of the coat i left there. yes. they must be. I actually asked. they are there.
the plan works great and it extends beyond keeping track of objects . it works with ideas in general. or i think it does.
im going to remember, now that what I will do from now on is to post some bullshit email from my dad or someone else. I feel the best way to convey my message is to give you the entirety of the reading material and then respond if i want.
So, considering the assumed structure of how i would like to present a person with the relevant ideas, i will say that in future, when reading an update, feel free to understand the first tone as the provoking element and the change in tone will be my response.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Mike Hurley email
Hey Guys
What’s your PSA score?
My father died of Prostate cancer being untreated. Any Dr. will tell you every man will get prostate cancer if he lives long enough. In the past few years they have made great advances in treating this cancer if detected early enough.
Types of tests Digital exam (finger up the old butt).
PSA test (blood work) PSA is a blood test that returns a number at this time the 5 is considered high or elevated. What has to be looked at in the PSA is the number or score and how it got to that level and the age of the person. In a person age 45 a score of 4 may be considered high. If your score is 3.5 and in six months it’s a 4 and in six months its 4.5 and in six months its 5 this will raise concerns. The person who invented this test has written it is not a failsafe test and needs improvement at this time it’s the best we have. I was told by my Dr. they are getting ready to lower the number or score that sends you for further testing.
Other signs or signals are what the person should be aware of.
Examples Leaking of urine after going to the bathroom the old saying it doesn’t mater how long or how many times you shake it the last drop still end up in your shorts. Is true what you have to look for is how much is a drop and has the amount changed in recent times.
Another sign is you just went to the bathroom and now you feel as if you have to go again shortly after well the key is did you have to go? When you get ready to go to the bathroom how’s the flow and how’s the pressure? Do you have to wait seconds, minutes for the flow to start? And again you leave and oh shit I feel like I have to go again.
The sex drive is it what it was and how’s the function. There are other see a Doctor.
My case at 52 years old
In the last 10 years I have had a least one physical per year and this included both exams most times I think.
About 7 years ago I would at times take a medicine for allergies that would put pressure on the prostate and give some examples of the above. This medicine has been removed from the market within the last few years for reasons I do not know.
My PSA started to climb as I described above. In January of this year I had another digital exam and the Dr. said the prostate seems to be a little on the large size. But did not think it was anything to be alarmed about. When the blood work was ordered they did not do a PSA test. This was at the Veterans clinic. You get what you pay for.
Shortly after this I had to attend 5 classes to keep my Electrical contractors License these held at a Holiday Inn. As part of these overcrowded over priced mandatory courses I found myself at the bar for lunch. On 3 Saturdays the following happened to me.
I ordered a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draught and followed that with another and a hamburger for lunch. Going back to class I found I had to go and it was a got go now Hurry get there,after getting to Urinal it was come on lets go start the flow a long wait and poor flow. Return to class and what got go again and same thing. This happened 3 different Saturdays. All I could think about was what my father went through his last few years of his life. Well that did it so now to the private Dr.
On her exam without me saying the above Pale Ale problem. She noted my prostate seemed to be not so much enlarged but not symmetrical. She than ordered the blood work, PSA came back at 5.This prompted her to send me to a Urologist for a Prostate Biopsy. A painless procedure if done with anesthesia.
After discovering my health insurance was not accepted by many Urologists and then switching insurance companies. I found my specialist. I was told I only had a 25% chance of having cancer. I was asked to think about if I would want to take one of the new drugs on the market for enlarged prostate.
Well as luck would have it I was a winner the Dr. said Cancer you got it. This opens many more doors and questions for the person to consider and answer. You will have what’s called a Gleason score a math function of how many times cancer was found in the different biopsies. Mine was six, average score. My chances of having had the cancer leave the prostate one in two thousand. Having the luck of the irish should I double down?
Well here I sit five days after a radical prostatectomy. Very lucky the cancer never left my prostate. I have three drains in me but feeling fine for what I went through. I kept this whole process on the quiet until I found out the extent of the cancer. I know my friends that after the years of showing you all the love I have there is nothing you would like better then to see me now. Not a chance I will suffer in private if you don’t mind. Let this note serve to boost your spirits. After all these years of busting balls I got what I had coming. Sorry I don't think this will change my humor.
While in the hospital a Dr. Assistant that worked on me said I’m 45 and go tomorrow to get the results of my Prostate Biopsy. So it not uncommon.
So feel free to pass this on to other males it is something that men have to start to converse about. Here is how it should go
First male says to the second male The Dr. went so far up my ass the other day I thought I felt his watch beating. Second male asks so what’s you PSA score? Sorry not funny but something that should be asked. What is your PSA score?
I can’t say I will miss the old digital exam but I will say glad I had them and the regular physicals. I discovered the moral of this story. If they don’t have you favorite adult beverages try Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draught and yes of course it will be for medicinal purposes. That’s a joke dumb ass.The moral is
Get you annual physical and know your PSA score.
Be good
Get you physical
Mike
What’s your PSA score?
My father died of Prostate cancer being untreated. Any Dr. will tell you every man will get prostate cancer if he lives long enough. In the past few years they have made great advances in treating this cancer if detected early enough.
Types of tests Digital exam (finger up the old butt).
PSA test (blood work) PSA is a blood test that returns a number at this time the 5 is considered high or elevated. What has to be looked at in the PSA is the number or score and how it got to that level and the age of the person. In a person age 45 a score of 4 may be considered high. If your score is 3.5 and in six months it’s a 4 and in six months its 4.5 and in six months its 5 this will raise concerns. The person who invented this test has written it is not a failsafe test and needs improvement at this time it’s the best we have. I was told by my Dr. they are getting ready to lower the number or score that sends you for further testing.
Other signs or signals are what the person should be aware of.
Examples Leaking of urine after going to the bathroom the old saying it doesn’t mater how long or how many times you shake it the last drop still end up in your shorts. Is true what you have to look for is how much is a drop and has the amount changed in recent times.
Another sign is you just went to the bathroom and now you feel as if you have to go again shortly after well the key is did you have to go? When you get ready to go to the bathroom how’s the flow and how’s the pressure? Do you have to wait seconds, minutes for the flow to start? And again you leave and oh shit I feel like I have to go again.
The sex drive is it what it was and how’s the function. There are other see a Doctor.
My case at 52 years old
In the last 10 years I have had a least one physical per year and this included both exams most times I think.
About 7 years ago I would at times take a medicine for allergies that would put pressure on the prostate and give some examples of the above. This medicine has been removed from the market within the last few years for reasons I do not know.
My PSA started to climb as I described above. In January of this year I had another digital exam and the Dr. said the prostate seems to be a little on the large size. But did not think it was anything to be alarmed about. When the blood work was ordered they did not do a PSA test. This was at the Veterans clinic. You get what you pay for.
Shortly after this I had to attend 5 classes to keep my Electrical contractors License these held at a Holiday Inn. As part of these overcrowded over priced mandatory courses I found myself at the bar for lunch. On 3 Saturdays the following happened to me.
I ordered a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draught and followed that with another and a hamburger for lunch. Going back to class I found I had to go and it was a got go now Hurry get there,after getting to Urinal it was come on lets go start the flow a long wait and poor flow. Return to class and what got go again and same thing. This happened 3 different Saturdays. All I could think about was what my father went through his last few years of his life. Well that did it so now to the private Dr.
On her exam without me saying the above Pale Ale problem. She noted my prostate seemed to be not so much enlarged but not symmetrical. She than ordered the blood work, PSA came back at 5.This prompted her to send me to a Urologist for a Prostate Biopsy. A painless procedure if done with anesthesia.
After discovering my health insurance was not accepted by many Urologists and then switching insurance companies. I found my specialist. I was told I only had a 25% chance of having cancer. I was asked to think about if I would want to take one of the new drugs on the market for enlarged prostate.
Well as luck would have it I was a winner the Dr. said Cancer you got it. This opens many more doors and questions for the person to consider and answer. You will have what’s called a Gleason score a math function of how many times cancer was found in the different biopsies. Mine was six, average score. My chances of having had the cancer leave the prostate one in two thousand. Having the luck of the irish should I double down?
Well here I sit five days after a radical prostatectomy. Very lucky the cancer never left my prostate. I have three drains in me but feeling fine for what I went through. I kept this whole process on the quiet until I found out the extent of the cancer. I know my friends that after the years of showing you all the love I have there is nothing you would like better then to see me now. Not a chance I will suffer in private if you don’t mind. Let this note serve to boost your spirits. After all these years of busting balls I got what I had coming. Sorry I don't think this will change my humor.
While in the hospital a Dr. Assistant that worked on me said I’m 45 and go tomorrow to get the results of my Prostate Biopsy. So it not uncommon.
So feel free to pass this on to other males it is something that men have to start to converse about. Here is how it should go
First male says to the second male The Dr. went so far up my ass the other day I thought I felt his watch beating. Second male asks so what’s you PSA score? Sorry not funny but something that should be asked. What is your PSA score?
I can’t say I will miss the old digital exam but I will say glad I had them and the regular physicals. I discovered the moral of this story. If they don’t have you favorite adult beverages try Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draught and yes of course it will be for medicinal purposes. That’s a joke dumb ass.The moral is
Get you annual physical and know your PSA score.
Be good
Get you physical
Mike
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