Cockroach Analogy
Prostate cancer is similar to finding a cockroach in the middle of
your kitchen table. You panic, knowing that where there is one
there are probably more and they do multiply. You call several
exterminators.
The surgeon recommends removal. He'll use a chain saw and remove
the kitchen from the rest of the house and repair the plumbing as
best he can with what remains.
The external beam radiation exterminator wants to stand out side
the kitchen and blast away with a twelve gauge shot gun hoping he
will miss the plumbing.
The seed implant exterminator is really slick. He just wants to
drill holes in the wall and toss in grenades.
The cryosurgery exterminator wants to drill holes in the walls and
pump in liquid nitrogen, hoping he doesn't freeze the
plumbing.
The hormone guys.. well they just want to pump in sleeping gas.
Knowing all too well that in a couple of years the cockroaches will
wake up pissed off and hungry.
Chemotherapy boys will offer to poison everything in the kitchen
and will promise you that if you eat the poison they will give you
an antidote which may or may not work.
The alternative medicine people will give you a bit of eye of newt
and toe of frog plus a couple of other exotic ingredients and hope
to hell that chases the cockroaches away. And then there are the
watchful waiting folks, some of whom are not real sure that there
was a cockroach and some of whom think it may have been just an old
bachelor 'roach with no kids that they saw.
Now if there is only the one cockroach the odds are good - you can
get rid of the infestation. However if the little bugger laid eggs
elsewhere or more of his buddies are lurking about in other
places... well you get the picture. In any case, life in the
kitchen will never be the same. One of these days an exterminator
will come along who just swats the cockroach and puts out poison
bait for the others!! You'll never know he was there. Until then
good luck on your choice of exterminators, and low or non-existent
PSA's to you all.
And remember - Don't take life too seriously. You won't get out of
it alive anyway!
