About those tests

When all the blood tests came back, the medical folks were sure Dad had prostate cancer. Many of his random and seemingly unconnected symptoms fit with this diagnosis. His number was stratospheric. His primary doctor said based on another part of the blood work he was sure it had already metastasized to his bones (this may well explain his day of great leg pain). 

But everyone I spoke with was fairly unconcerned given his age and the slow growing nature of prostate cancer, he would probably not die of it but with it.