Well that’s it I have completed my twenty days of
radiotherapy. Overall, I seem to have come out of it relatively unscathed.
General tiredness, one or two problems peeing and the occasional looseness in
the bowels apart it was a painless process. The effects will last for another
few weeks I have been told and then hopefully I will be back to normal –
whatever that is! I would like to thank the radiography staff at Velindre who
have been helpful, sympathetic and thoroughly professional. What I don’t know
of course is what the outcome of the radiotherapy is.
Yesterday I also had a telephone consultation with the
oncologist. My recent blood test shows PSA still low at 0.1 which is good news.
There was some slight concern about my white blood cell count being a little
low but this was to be expected given that my lymph system had been having a
dose of radiation over the last month.
The outcome is that I will have a further consultation in
eight weeks time. In the meantime, I will keep taking the hormone tablets and
having the injections as before.
I guess everything is going to plan and the next phase will be continued hormone treatment backed up by three monthly blood tests. Having the blood test done and waiting anxiously for the result is like doing exams in school or putting money on a horse you are one edge until you get the result. It is quite stressful that is for sure.
Overall though I do feel relieved.
