Jason

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Finding New Pastimes - Keeping Busy

Update Wow doesn't time pass fast? This blog was scheduled for early May and here we are in June.. Not so much 'nothing to say' as it was all planned out, but just didn't get round to it. Anyway, all change on the treatment front so probably worth waiting for. Chem is over (Yay!) but looking at the next treatment has begun, with the slow process of scans, blood tests, meetings, etc. that can quickly dominate your life. Unfortunately these things take time so I'm currently in limbo waiting for

Bone Pain and Cycling? An Electric Solution..

Update OK. Update time. Radiotherapy After Effects - Nil. Pain in Treated Area - Nil. No score draw. Boring, but good. But, finally this week I discovered what can happen when bugs get through my 'Clean Zone' regime. It's very easy to get complacent, and I don't think that I am, but something got through and boy did I know it. Without going into too many details this was not a viral infection (which is a scary thought - straight into hospital, intravenous antibiotics and possible interruption

Radiotherapy - No Needles, but Tattoos!

Update Wow. Really a long time since I wrote a real blog entry - I decided the other day that I had settled into a bit of a malaise and so had found it difficult to find new things to write about. Time to reverse that. Life can be hard; get on with it. It is true to say that there is less new when going through chemo for the second time. The symptoms are not the same, and as I've already mentioned before there is an odd lack of routine this time around. What this leads to is new patterns of

March for Men Special 2017 II

March for Men 2017 - Normal Blog Service Will Resume Next Week Just a reminder really - I am going all out promoting my March for Men team raising funds and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK. For anyone who hasn't been to this blog before I hope that you'll checkout some of the blogs, but here is a quick summary.. I am living with advanced prostate cancer and last year, through my first round of chemo, I learned to run and trained up for a 5k run in aid of Prostate Cancer UK. A small team

Week 8 - The Prostate Gravy Train

Update Suddenly charging towards the end of round 3, and 1/3 of the way through the whole treatment thing. The actual length of the treatment is a little up in the air as there is no right or wrong number of treatments to have, and we’re negotiating based on how the initial three or four sessions go. I'm not sure if success means more sessions or less sessions, but I guess that I’ll find out! The PSA Debates Rages On This week I was emailed some interesting information to add into the PSA

Week 7 - Motivational Reading

Update Time There was obviously a long time between the ending of the first blog series, and the starting of the new series. In all about 7 months give or take. One of the key changes was a move from any notion of long term, in terms of stability, to short term. In fact all through the summer and autumn there was barely a month where something else didn't crop up leading to a change in treatment, new issues, etc. I'll detail on as an example below. It's important to be able to accept that