Dupuytren's in the paper, weight loss and cold feet!

Several little things to talk about today but nothing too major. 

Diet: 

First of all on my battle with beating the bulge that is my belly. I am happy to say that in the last 3 weeks I have lost a stone and gone from struggling to do 5 miles on the exercise bike to pumping out 10 miles yesterday and I am staying highly motivated towards losing this weight. 

Cold:

Ok so I don't really feel the cold but have reported many times on how the cold makes my foot worse and this last weekend I was at the cricket in Cardiff where it always seems to be cold, towards the end of the day my feet were feeling freezing even if the rest of me felt ok. My foot was hurting a bit but nothing like I would expect for this kind of cold and the next day my foot was perfectly ok. 

The next thing nicely follows on the the cricket bit above. 

Aggers has Dupuytren's: 

Anyone here who watches cricket on a regular basis will have heard of Aggers (Jonathan Agnew) he is involved a lot with the cricket and comes across as a nice guy. Well the Daily Mail here in the UK picked up on this and as pointed out by the British Dupuytren's Society this was published over the weekend. 

Aggers said that this has been his biggest test and I think it is well worth reading the article to see his point of view on this condition. 

Aggers in the Mail.

It is interesting to hear that he thinks that the repeated trauma of getting hit on the hands by the cricket ball may have at least partially caused the onset of this condition and comments that others such as Gooch and Gower have it, but to be honest I think that the more important factor is that he has a family history of this with a cousin also having the condition so it is likely in his genetics.

Sports watching day!

I am now sitting in bed on a bright sunny Sunday morning and my wife is due back home after only having one lesson this morning and then she doesn't have another one until 4pm or there about. Don't get me wrong I am content today to stay in and watch the French Open (which I am at the moment) and then watch the cricket (which I will be in 10minutes and that will be on the laptop so I can have the tennis on muted) and then at 1pm the Formula One starts so will probably turn off the tennis and mute the cricket after they are back out from lunch, but at the same time as I think all of that is amazing I would also love to go out for a walk.

We live a matter of minutes away from the beach, I am tempted to suggest that we wonder down and sit in the sun for a little bit though I of course have to keep my trainers on and my feet protected from the sun. However my foot is not being nice to me this morning or indeed since finishing Radiotherapy.

I have not been on my feet much and think this is a rather ominous sign for going back to work tomorrow. I am hardly on my feet, hardly doing anything but I am in a lot of pain once I get going and this can't bode well. I don't know if it is the application of the E45 and this rubbing of the lump is causing some of the pain or whether it is just the Ledderhose putting up a fight before going away (fingers crossed).

Anyway a day of resting and sport watching should help cheer me up and only 4 hours of teaching for my wife means she can watch the F1 as well but more importantly it means that she is around.