Although my appointment with the oncology consultant is not until later this month, I have been hassling my friendly and helpful urology nurse to let me know of any test results asap. She telephoned me yesterday with the preliminary results of the CT scan… It “looks like” the cancer has not spread to any soft tissues. This is great news, although she cautioned me that there was a tumour growing out from the “grossly enlarged” prostate, and that there still remained a risk that it had spread to my bones. Hopefully we’ll get the bone scan results within the next few days.

Elsewhere I seem to be getting on ok with the hormone suppression treatment. It’s early days yet but I do feel like my energy levels have improved and I’m not yet experiencing the nasty side-effects that 80% of patients do.

This is definitely not all doom and gloom. I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks getting out on the mountain bike as often as possible; trying to get in the best shape possible so that they can up my treatment to an 11. I can handle it!