Friday, July 16, 2010
You've been here before
I'm pretty much neutral on outcome - by that I mean I haven't prejudged it this time. I wait to hear what they say and I hope for the best but may have to accept second best. I really hope that they can just get on with it and get me out as soon as possible. I just want to be on the other side as soon as possible.
I need to do a trawl around the house and check everything and then wander up to the Hospital. Scar Wars IX here we go.
That's a little better
Floods of Dreams
Light breakfast has been had and I am now on water only until 11 and nothing after that until after the operation. My MP3 player is charged up and ready to go but I'm not packed yet - I will do that in a minute or two once Mrs. F. and L go off to work and school. I then have the place to myself and can sort myself out accordingly.
As I often say to myself, it will all be over this time tomorrow. I hope that is the case. More importantly, it is whether there are any recurrences and if there are, what grade and stage they are at and what to do about them. If things are clear, that will be good. I feel pretty good although I have sympathetic pains in and around by bladder and the back of my hand - strange sensations both.
I feel pretty good - albeit I know I'm a bit stressed. I'll see how a bit of exercise and a shower and shave make me feel. Hopefully that will burn away some of the hours.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
And so to bed
I had to laugh a minute ago though when I saw Steve K's Blog - he and I are having a friendly weight loss competition - what made me laugh was the thought that maybe I was only going in for biopsies to lose more weight. It only hurts when I laugh - or will do for two or three days anyway. Well at least that brought a smile to my otherwise serious face this evening - thanks Steve :-)
Here it comes
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Exercise - the upside
Run in to Friday
Run Down to Friday
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Compliment
Monday, July 12, 2010
That was nice
Sunday, July 11, 2010
That's strange
Weight
16 Stones and 3 lbs - which in real money is 227 lbs. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised about that as the Hospital measured me lower than that on Wednesday and this week I have actually noticed things like my trousers being really loose, my jackets are no longer tight especially around my stomach. Even my thighs look thinner - if that can possibly be :-)
I'm very pleased - I reckon the weather must also have a lot to do with it - I've been eating (except last night's barbecue) rabbit food all week and just a little fish or meat. Generally, I eat salads with some sort of fish or have baked potatoes with baked beans and Tuna and some low fat cheese. I'm still thwacking back cottage cheese and taking my pro-biotic yoghurt drink every morning. I'm eating lots of fruit and also have dried fruits too. I have no sugar or sweet things, no crisps, no cakes or anything like that - if I want a snack I go and get a piece of fruit or a stick of celery or some such. It is slightly more than my target 2lbs a week but I'm sure there are anomalies with the measuring equipment and some sort of plus / minus thing that goes on.
I will have to be careful after I come out of Hospital as I tend to "boredom eat" if Ii am just sat or lying around all day recovering. If you've not had a Rigid Cystoscopy the main thing is that they insert a large tube up your urethra which leaves you pretty sore for 24 to 36 hours and uncomfortable for about a week I suppose. Because they normally take out 6 biopsies from your bladder to examine, and these are cauterised wounds, they scab up and you must be careful to let them heal and they tend to take a few weeks to clear up completely. Unfortunately you do tend to pee a bit of blood and the odd clot for a few days afterwards and then perhaps up to 2 weeks later can pass some bits. It isn't painful just unnatural and therefore disturbing. So as you can imagine, leaping around, doing exercises or any other over exuberent activity is seriously frowned on. I did some and set myself back - this was probably in early 2007 and I was told just to take it easy. Things like driving especially a heavy old clutched manual car like mine are also not advisable for the first week or so.
Well, I am pleased with my progress to date and I am pleased that I've changed my eating habits enough to continue to lose weight with the help of my exercises. I am not expecting too much in the way of loss in the next 3 weeks though.
Thing are a little cooler
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Too hot to exercise
Friday, July 09, 2010
So that blew my Exercise and going to London
Bugger
One Week Away
Thursday, July 08, 2010
Makes your blood boil
So let me get this straight
Wednesday, July 07, 2010
Friends the good, the bad and the ugly
- It was a tiny, minute tumour
- the remaining 99.9% of my bladder was clear of cancer and has been for 3+ years
- You can't treat a tiny, weeny little tumour like that - it was cut-out and is NO LONGER THERE
- It was low grade, low threat, less than CIS or any other tumour I've had before
- Decreasing the time between biopsies is best in class behaviour and the right thing to do
- If they find anything now - they can scrape it out. If they don't we revert back to the original 6 month reviews
- In 3 months not a lot can happen to a bladder that was left cancer free
- BC grows slowly and can be controlled