I sent you a voice mail back via text. I'm okay. Love you too. So you are in NY? Where? I will tell Tony you send your regards.

Yes....I've heard from several folks here and O.G. reached out by phone. Love you all. Hope to be able to connect on Monday.

Thank you Jaihon. Love you brother.

Hi...thanks for your message. I know that I've got family to lean on here and that means the world to me. Hugs my brother.

Jody...thank you so very much. You build me up with your kind words. I'm not used to it. As I said, I mostly wanted to let people know I am doing okay and just haven't been available to hop on Club House and when I did on Thursday. The app wasn't working. I needed to uninstall and re-install it. That got it working again. Didn't want anyone worrying about me since I have been on so often. Hugs and love to you and all of my family on Clubhouse and Mendable.app

I look at my photos and I've been told the black and white post-mastectomy photo makes me look like a bad ass. No one here has commented. Is that your first thought too?

Here is the male self breast exam instructions: https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

I have a PET scan on Wednesday morning, 5/26 at 10 AM ET. Please say a prayer for me if you are the praying type. Any scan gives the cancer patient scanxiety. I suspect that there will be improvement and not progression. But improvement is what I need. I will be in treatment of some sort the rest of my life. No matter if that is 2 years or 20 years. (I'm shooting for as long as possible) And I would just like to transition when the time comes in peace and no pain or sickness. Just slip away quickly and quietly. I've seen so many friends that I've made traveling in this cancer circle who had all different types of cancer. I just want a good death when the time comes. So it all boils down to "please pray for my longevity". I still have work on this earth to do.

You are welcome. Here are the instructions for a male breast self exam. Share the news that men have breast (tissue) too. https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

Thanks so much. I appreciate being part of a kind and loving family. I am sharing the male breast self exam here, please share it with all the men in your life. https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

I appreciated the indulgence to allow me to tell my story. Has it affected my mental health. Hell yeah! But I need to carry on...especially now that I am stage 4 with metastatic spread all over the place. I have my next PET scan tomorrow morning. I'm scared as shit. But, it is better to know, than not know. The last scan 3 months ago showed improvement. The letrazole and the Ibrance seem to work well for folks. Here is a link to the male self breast exam: https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

Johnny... Thank you so much. And I hope you will email me photos of your shirt with my name on it. My email is bob.devito@gmail.com I'd love that. My story is one that must be told. So I tell it. It's my journey. I want to be sure we have everyone checking their tits. ;-) Here is a how-to link on male breast self exams: https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

Robert... Thanks so very much for your kind words.

Here is the link on how to do a men's self breast exam to spread to the guys in the Clubhouse room: https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

Thank you so much, Patrick. I don't want any other man to get caught not knowing they could have breast cancer. We all need to be doing self exams: breast/pec, testiciles, and getting our prostates checked. I encourage all men to know their bodies. If something doesn't feel quite right, get to your primary care doctor and find out about it. And We can't let them blow us off because we are men and that lump in our breast is "probably a cyst or a calcium deposit". That is a common thread in many of the guys stories. Help spread the word. Here is a link to how to perform a male breast self exam: https://breastselfexams.org/mens-self-exam/

Thank you Michael ! Glad to be here.