3 years post radiotherapy, what a difference

So it has now been 3 years since I finished radiotherapy (well yesterday was) and thing have improved even more since last year. 

http://ledderhose.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/update-2-years-after-starting.html

I don't think that the improvements since last year have been a direct result of radiotherapy but rather because I can exercise since having had radiotherapy. This year we decided to get fit and lose weight, we have decided to do this using a low-carb diet. 

There were many reasons that we picked this diet and I have actually since found several papers suggesting that the decrease in sugar is good for reducing tumour growth as they can be highly reliant on sugar as their primary energy source. 

And pretty much since starting the diet the residual pain in my foot, for example after exercise, diminished and has now gone. It is great that I hardly have to actually consider my foot any more. The only time that I notice it now is when I step on something without my trainers on. 

The lifestyle change has gone really well and I have lost a significant amount of weight and my dreams of one day running a marathon are back on, who would have thought that 3 years ago! 

Left: Wedding July 2015, Right Wedding August 2014

This year has also been eventful because of the amazing trip to Groningen. The conference was amazing and I learnt a lot. Thank you to everyone for the support again and as usual if there is anything you want to know then please ask and I will do my best to cover it. 

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.