Race for Life

I have signed up to walk 10km on May 21st for the Race for Life – mostly because I can. The scans show the condition of the hips and pelvis to be stable; all lesions there are sclerotic so thickened up and relatively strong. Some of the spinal lesions are lytic (soft and spongy) and *something* is giving me a bit of trouble just under the bra strap – might be a crumbly vertebrae; might be a spasming muscle -  but nothing to stop me walking.

And I’m off chemo until at least May 3rd (date of next scan), maybe longer (well, you never know!). Even if I am back on chemo, following the next scan, it’ll still be early days when I do the Race so shouldn’t be affecting me too much.

And who knows how much longer I’ll be able to take part in the Race for Life? So, while I can, it seems a good idea to do so; raise money for Cancer Research UK, so they can develop more treatments, so I can keep doing the Race for Life and so on and so on, ad lib to fade…

I’ll be doing it alone – no-one else seems much interested in walking with me or even spending a morning at the park and waving me off or welcoming me back home. Would be nice though; it’s a bit dull and something of a let down to do something that is, when all’s said and done, a challenge for me and not have anyone cheering, smiling, waving as I mooch along for 2 hours. But that just takes me back to the points I made in my January post; nothing has changed since then. Nothing will change, I don’t suppose. I’m just not the kind of person that anyone thinks to do favours for or give support to. Ah well.

So if  I can walk 10km with holes in my bones, spots on my liver and active breast cancer, and without champions, what can you do?

http://www.raceforlifesponsorme.org/ruthjames1310