Our new new meeting place:  I want to apologize to two members who attended the supposed January meeting; I didn't get around to changing the web page meeting notice until too late.  I hope to see all of you there February 21st.  Classroom 1 is next to the Emergency Room.  Most classrooms open onto E-W halls, but Classroom 1 is around the corner from the hall opening to the street.

Medicare D:  I hope you all are doing well with Medicare part D.  As my doctor says. it should have been handled like Medicare parts A and B; that is, let your pharmacy bill Medicare just as the doctor does now for medical care.  I am still struggling.  I tried to sign up with Medco's company, YouRx, but I couldn't get registered in time to get my medicine, and I needed to call them and transfer all my prescriptions.  Instead I tried to cancel.  I don't know if I succeeded.  I also tried to get on wife Jane's TRS plan since Raytheon cancelled their plan and became secondary, whatever that means.  At present I am going out of the country.  My Lupron has gone from nothing to $40/quarter to $1100/quarter.  I am considering other options such as an orchiectomy if it is as effective.

 Happy Valentine's Day.  See you at the February meeting.  Jerry Bylander

Date:  Tuesday, February 21  Social Hour: 6:30 pm, Program: 7:00 pm
Time:  6:30 pm - Social & Coffee  7:00 pm - Program
Location:  Classroom 1,  Wilson N. Jones, 500 N. Highland, Sherman, TX                                  Title:   New diagnostic equipment in his offices      
Speaker:  Steven Johnson

As always the group does not recommend any particular treatment, therapy, physician, or hospital. US TOO! Sherman is a prostate cancer group formed for the purpose of sharing information, education, and mutual support.   

Date:  None planned
 

Title:  "Can I prevent prostate cancer or its growth with proper diet?"
Moderator:  Dr. Thomas Nuckols, Austin College Professor Emeritus
Roundtable:  Tom discussed a recent time magazine article about living longer and how.  Jerry discussed the M.D. Anderson diet he was instructed about during many visits to Houston over a years time.  Henri discussed the importance of bone health and how to achieve it.

The meeting adjourned about 9:30 PM.

Material posted here is intended for educational purposes only and must not be considered a substitute for informed medical advice from your own physician.

Henri has suggested that an interesting website is:  Here is a link to a German scientist who has a good test for systemic cancer so as to not put a man through therapies that cannot succeed.
http://www.prostapath.de/

 Jerry Bylander, Editor