Found my way to The Room last night, down that long corridor and past all those doors that had distracted me in recent weeks. What I want to say about The Room in my blog will, I hope, help others find release there too.
I have a clear and photographic imagination that helps me to understand things and write about them. To me the room is clean and white. Whatever may have happened there with the last person to use it…
Yesterday was a good day. Drove for an hour to the motor agent for the MOT. Once home found I could climb the stairs with two cups of tea for the first time in weeks. Rested in the evening then, -BOOM! something went and I could hardly move around the house. Pain in the right buttock region.
Today not good. Struggled with the chores. Wife is in trouble with her knees and shoulder and needs my help. Her consultant rheumatologist…
Yesterday was a good day until the evening. Our son came and helped with jobs in the garden that take a lot of lifting and bending. I did the light jobs and the foreman bit. The sun shone and all seemed rosy until our son left. Then my wife had a very severe pain in her right hand that had her crying out and unable to do anything. I had to be her carer for everything, meal, washing, and to bed. We had no idea how to stop…
I saw the oncologist today, referred back by my friendly urologist. I'm to stay on both bicalutamide and the injections of decapeptyl (I often get the spelling wrong and so do medical secretaries!). The logic is that the weeds will be attacked from two sides even though the injections were insufficient on their own.
PSA was up when tested last week, hope it comes down again just as fast. The oncologist agreed with…
-But I'm still rolling along.
Saw my urologist today for a routine update. But I have been much worse with pain the last 24 hrs. Told him all my symptoms and finished up on the couch for an examination, -not PR fortunately.
I have a painful left hip, a very weak left leg that won't bear weight and a tender liver edge. Sent straight off for hip/pelvic xrays and blood tests. My urologist came and talked over the Xray…
