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I am Gary Johnson and this is how I found out I had prostate cancer.
While I had been, I worked for a company and they sold out, so I got a work for couple
of years and during that time, I never went to the doctor, so Marlys decided to set the
appointment for me to have a physical and I went to the doctor and had a physical. And
the doctor came back and said your, your PSA, everything is fine but your PSA is high. And
I said what is it, he said it was 44. I said well what it should be and he said 2 or 3
and I think what all we know is, is lot of difference between 3 and 44 and I asked what
that means, he said you may have prostate cancer, and so all that time I blame Marlys
me having prostate cancer because if she never made that appointment for me, I would never
had prostate cancer. So it's her fault. Anyway that's basically, if I had not gone in for
that physical, I am not sure how long it would have been before I would have gone in, so
I am really glad that was nine years ago and I am still taking hormone therapy and drugs
for this and live my life.
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