re: Prostate cancer, gleason score 6, psa 5…..

About 2 years ago, I did some blood work and got a call from a nurse a couple days later. She says, “Your PSA is 12.4.”

I’m like, “Okay. Is that not normal?” She says, “No, it’s high and you should see a doctor soon.” I tell her thanks and hang up and forget about it. I didn’t even know what a PSA was.

A couple days later, I’m at work in Houston between flights and my wife calls me. She had opened my test results and saw the PSA. (She was bringing the results to our insurance to get a $100 refund). She asked if I was concerned and I said no. She says, “Look up a PSA test on your phone and what your numbers should be and call me back.”

So I look up PSA scores. It says that a PSA over 10 means you have a 50% of prostate cancer. My heart dropped. I called my wife back and told her I was coming home. Called out sick and flew home. Next day I got an emergency appointment with a doctor and he gave me a prostate exam and found nothing. Did the blood work again and the PSA came back normal.

Don’t know how that happened, but it scared the shite out of me.