It seems as if I have been marking time or at least time is passing very slowly. So far, the only discernible effect of the hormone treatment seems to be a thickening of the waist. With the reopening of the leisure centres I had been able to get back to the gym and also to do some swimming which had made a big difference to my outlook. Just I was managing to get into a routine combining golf, gym, swimming and walking there was a spike in the COVID 19 incidents and Newport went into lockdown. This meant no more visits to the leisure centre as it is some quarter of a mile or so outside the Newport boundary. This is very frustrating.
The next hormone treatment injection is scheduled for
October 9th and then I will need to get a blood test done before my first
visit to Velindre on the October 26th. As I said above, this seems a
long way away as life grinds almost to a halt. COVID is not helping matters
that is for sure.
I did have my flu jab on September 23rd and felt
a little under the weather for a couple of days afterwards.
Apart from this, I don’t feel any better or worse in myself
but there is this nagging feeling of the alien growing inside of me and an
overwhelming desire for the radiotherapy to start. I know I need to be patient
but it is not easy! All this waiting seems to ramp up the stress levels.
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