This is my first ever blog and the first time I’ve been a member of the cancer club. Being me I have dived in at the “advanced” end of the cancer scale, which means I am expecting some difficult times ahead as well as good ones. There is a history to all of this of course, which I will get to in future posts, but right now I am trying to get my blog alive before I go to my induction group prior to starting chemotherapy.

So at the moment I am anxious and curioius as to what will happen but look forward to sharing the experience with you. To date my experince of the medical profession has been interesting. They seem to be nice people but all think they have to instill hope into me and cannot resist telling me about their favourite person who is still sky diving at the age of 84 having been diagnosed 20 years ago. Unfortunatley for them I can read. The NICE guidelines and reviews of the research literature is a little more realistic.

Its 76 days, or two cell division cycles since my diagnosis, so I am understandably eager to be geting on with things. Tomorow is a significant step forward.

I am already having treatment that reduces the testosterone in my body that so far has reduced my PSA from 149 to 4.9 (yippeee) but induced hot flushes like a menaupausal woman (Boooo). I now know why the window was open at night in the depths of winter when my partner reached that time of life.

I have lots to share, including a holiday experience in Jamaica that started all this off, but for now I cross my fingers and hope that I have got this blogging thing under way right.