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On Friday, March 8, 2013 4:56:10 PM UTC-6, Edward Dolan wrote:
I also sometimes wonder if Jim McNamara licked his prostate cancer. I
suspect he did. He was too damn ornery ever to die!

What is there to understand. Just because your prostate cancer was
diagnosed
as terminal does not mean you can’t live another 20 years. Life itself is
terminal, but many of us manage to live a long time in spite of that
prognosis.

What is there to understand? Well, for one I had a PSA of 385.4 and a
Gleason Score of 8. For the purpose of prognosis, a PSA over 4 is
reason for alarm and a Gleason Score above 8 is indicative of an
aggressive form of cancer. These two combined figures are indicators
that my "expiration date" was much sooner than 20 years. The point that
I was making though was in reference to your wondering if I had "licked"
my prostate cancer. With the current state of medical technology, my
advance disease is not curable. That is what you seemed not to
comprehend. Now that I have spelled things out for you, I trust that
you now understand..

You have “licked” your prostate cancer for so long as you continue to live.
The fact is that being diagnosed with cancer is no longer a death sentence.
Your PSA was indeed high and your Gleason Score was also higher then
average - average being about 6. What you need to understand is that not
everyone who comes into this world manages to reach our ages. Life, like
many cancers, is not “curable” either. We are all ... yes, everyone of us,
doomed (even Tom Sherman). So what else is new?
[...]

Time spent on Usenet is a waste regardless of whom you are addressing
unless
all the asshole screwballs can be filtered out.

I presume you include yourself since you have gone on record to state
that you are the biggest asshole on Usenet. To be perfectly honest,
your pugnacious combativeness, unsubstantiated repetitious assertions,
and especially your unyielding, obnoxious false sense of infallibility
became so exasperating that I eventually had to refrain from replying to
you. I needed to curtail any and all cyber-communications. I needed a
time out. Life is just to short to waste much of it on someone so hell
bent on being the number one jackass on Usenet.

Understood! But you are a naïf in expecting anything at all from Usenet. I
knew right from the beginning that time spent on Usenet was going to be a
waste. But I have had some fun wasting my time. How about you?
[...]

Tibetan Monkey killed the group (RBS) although it was already half dead.

So it wasn't Ed Gin after all ;~)

After Ed Gin we were flopping around like a fish out of water. All Tibetan
Monkey did was administer the coup de grace. That is what idiocy always
does. At least everyone, including you, now knows what a dead newsgroup
looks like. RBS – RIP!

PS: I am delighted that you are alive and kicking. Whatever you are doing,
keep it up as it must be doing some good.

42 fractions of radiation, triple androgen deprivation (hormone)
therapy, dietary changes, supplementation, etc. I've not had a
measurable PSA for more than two years now. Assuming that you are
sincere, then thanks for being delighted.

And why the hell wouldn’t I want you to be well? You are one of the few
persons in this world that I feel I halfway know. Same goes for Tom Sherman.
Just because we disagree on most everything doesn’t mean ****. I have always
enjoy our discussions and debates. Both you and Tom Sherman are on my level
of intelligence, The three of us are a rare breed on Usenet!

As you may know I had the external beam radiation and the seed implants
treatments some 10 years ago. So far, the only really bad effect of that has
been a single episode of bleeding from the bladder due to radiation
cystitis. My PSA also remains unmeasurable for what that is worth. The fact
is there are still no good treatments for prostate cancer that don’t leave
you with adverse side effects.

Ed Dolan the Great