First day back at work after Radiotherapy

Today was my first day back at work since having radiotherapy on my Ledderhose last week, for those who are new or are forgetful this was with Dr Shaffer at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford.

Just a picture of my bench at work. 

I have certainly learnt something for next time and that is that because of the travelling it was knackering and that despite not doing a lot at the weekend I still felt completely shattered this morning and think it is probably best that next time I take an extra day to recover but will have to see how I am feeling nearer the time.

Of course the important news is what is my foot like. Well the answer is that I am not sure, if doesn't really feel different (hasn't softened), it doesn't look any different (same size) and the pain is not any better although a little bit different. I'll explain further....

Normally I have a high level of background pain and a decent level of increased pain when I step onto it but today, whether by fluke from being off of my foot last week or because of the radiotherapy I am not in so much pain at rest however this does seem to be accompanied by a much sharper and more painful um pain when standing and walk. So overall it is not an improvement but different. This is not to say that there was no pain when resting, in fact there were probably more of the short sharp burst of really bad pain than before radiotherapy but then I didn't really quantify the pain.

Today I also seemed to tweaked something in my left ankle on my way back home on my way to the bus stop and I guess this was probably a result of me trying to be nice on my foot. This ankle has been really hurting all evening and I hope it clears up in the morning.

I am also now starting to run out of my pain killers that the foot specialist gave me when I went to see them. This means that I need to go to my GP and see if this time they will actually be helpful or not, I do't have high expectations my I am not sure what I am going to do if they don't give me more pain killers.

Hopefully I see some improvement soon and hopefully some good will come from spending the £2000 for radiotherapy other than just the huge amount of hope it is going to give me for the next 6 months. To be fair that hope is worth quite a lot of money but that would probably be negated by the depression of it not working should that happen...

I am not sitting down watching a program about pain...Should be interesting How to beat pain

Today and a book

Today was an interesting day. My foot did hurt from the point that I got up, not too bad, but more like the pain I am used to at 10 or 11am rather than 7am. Still I progressed and of course could not take pain killers as I didn't want to fall asleep. It sure would be nice if they made some pain killers that worked and didn't make me drift off, I'll have to ask next time I am at the doctors.

Annoyingly for me I then found that the pain increased throughout the day to the point then when I got home I had dinner, got this post ready, go ready for bed and took the pain killers. Really this cannot continue and hopefully it will not have to.

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So I have now passed 150 blog posts, hopefully that means there is lots of useful information on the blog now and I would like to think that with sections on my experience as well as others in the interviews, on the treatments and the science as well as all the other stuff I have covered it must be useful for some people. I think that the increasing usefulness of the blog is being reflected in to the increasing demand, I have already passed my highest previous month and it is only the 23rd and the previous best month had 31 days, in fact this month I have enjoyed a lot of support and have been averaging over 100 page views, thank you everyone.

I am also hoping that I can make my posts into a collection, so like an e-book of my opinions on Ledderhose, note not a medical book as I am not a doctor but I have written a lot here. I have actually made most of it into this format already and it just requires some tweaking before I use it. Not sure how to publish it, it would be nice if people would have to make a £2 donation or something to get all of the information collated together in one simple PDF as the information is still available on here so it is not like I am stopping people from accessing it I am just asking for some acknowledgement that putting it together has actually taken a lot of time and effort.

If anybody knows of a way of doing this I would be grateful if you would contact me... If not I will be looking into the options as I know that places like Amazon allow you to do this but take 30% of the cost plus more and there must be some better options out there and they expect things to be much more professional. Basically am I asking for a way of me able to sell the PDF file on here no strings attached and the person gets the PDF straight away?