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Moving on still further
Having decided to stop blogging on this subject some time ago, I've now decided that enough has happened to justify another post ( Read more... ) -
Moving on
I have decided that I will not make any more new posts to this blog. It will remain but I consider the phase of my life that it covered as over.
I now want to use my experience to take part in the debate about relationships between patients and the health industry. To that end I have created a new blog over on Blogspot: ePatient-the Empowered ( Read more... ) -
Good News Following Checkup
I had a 6-monthly check-up last Thursday. To my surprise, I actually saw my oncologist, Dr Barber. I have only seen him at key points early on in the process. After a discussion about my general health, he offered me the opportunity to come off the hormones, assuming that the result of the PSA test done that day showed that the level is stable, ( Read more... ) -
Some anniversary thoughts
September 3rd I kept as the third anniversary of my diagnosis (new readers start here). I celebrated with a short ride up the Taff Trail, crossing the river into Morganstown and coming back through Radyr to Llandaff Cathedral and going down to the Bay via the west bank of the river. I had a pleasant lunch at Coffee Mania and came home. About 10 ( Read more... ) -
Silent Running
I know I have not finished writing up the Lon Lâs Challenge. After finishing the ride I've had a holiday in Malta with my wife, she's been ordained priest, I have taken part in three performance of a 30minute community opera at the Wales Millennium Centre and then it has rained an awful lot. I have either been too busy or too depressed by the ( Read more... ) -
The Evening of the Third Day
We are now in Corris and although there is no broadband in the hostel I'm hopeful that if I go across the main road to the little bit of garden I might get lucky as there is a reasonable mobile signal. So I'm writing this offline in the hope of being able to cut and paste it into LJ in the morning. (It didn't work though, I'm catchig up on this ( Read more... ) -
Morning of the Third Day
Day 1 was extremely enjoyable and relatively short although we paid for it yesterday. The weather so far has been incredible; I have never seen the Welsh countryside looking so beautiful. The group dynamics are working well, there are two of us who did it last yhear and we've ended up rooming. We also have the indomitable Nan, a very welsh lady in ( Read more... ) -
Getting ready to go
So Saturday was it. I finished my training and all that is left is to take it easy this week and it lots of carbohydrates. I had expected to do something long with lots of ascent but instead I did something easy just to get out. The weather was indifferent which didn't exactly motivate me. I eventually got away about 11:30, at least two hours later ( Read more... ) -
A hilly trip round my "bro"
In Welsh "bro" means "vale" so "Bor Morgannwg" = "Vale of Glamorgan" but it also has a much more interesting psychological meaning: "The area I feel homesick for". I'm using itt in both senses here. My ride yesterday was designed to be as long and hilly as the tougher days on the Lon Las but also took me to places in the Vale that I have not seen ( Read more... ) -
Keppoch Street Market Fund-raiser
Well we had a good day today at the market and raised £100 or 10% of my target. Thanks to Matthew Dixon for helping Meg to run the stall while I pedalled on the iMagic trainer. The odd thing was we raised much more in direct sponsorship and donations than from the raffle and the competition. The competition was to estimate my total pedal ( Read more... )