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	<title>Simon's prostate log</title>
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		<title>22. Home &#038; away with catheter</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=341</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A catheter can be quite useful from time-to-time. It certainly makes it easier to accurately water the lemon tree. But it introduces a level of obstruction that can be quite inhibiting and it sure feels good to have the tube removed. 
This morning, Priscilla the urology nurse, gave me a shot of antibiotics in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21. Being home</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I may be able to stop being an invalid. But nothing quite like being in your own bed and being looked after. Had to sleep on Susan&#8217;s side of the bed (left) due to the catheter on my left leg. This meant that the cat bit her foot in the morning (cat usually bites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>20. Thank you</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=315</link>
		<comments>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=315#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s 6:30am and I&#8217;m packed and ready. I&#8217;ve been fortunate indeed to have so many good people travelling along with me. So thanks to all of you who have been there, sent texts, made comments, phoned me. It&#8217;s been incredibly important to me and probably why I have done so well. All I can say [...]]]></description>
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		<title>19. Pathology + the gory bits</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=293</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy came by this evening with a CD of the stills from the operation. He said that the pathology of the prostate was good except that one part of the tumour was just a mm from the edge. This is too close for comfort but he thinks we got it in time (before it spread). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18. 4th day - out tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=277</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Up early to do the catheter wash, shave and shower. The nurse was keen for me to have a Panadol.  We agreed that I&#8217;d take the Panadol if she removed the drip needle from my arm. No doubt she would have removed it anyway.

I&#8217;m wondering if I&#8217;ll be allowed to go home today. Seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>17. 3rd day blues?</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=257</link>
		<comments>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=257#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 20:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim rang me this morning at about 6:30am and we talked about slipping boats. I then discovered my bed was a bit a train wreck - a slip way in itself. I don&#8217;t know what happened but the nurses are amused and can&#8217;t fix it.
But I do recall spending the night struggling to get back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>16. blessing the shower</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=240</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[An unpleasant, uncomfortable long night with a fever and a peculiar bed-bound discomfort where the body seems to be pressed into all the hard bits by inertia, gravity and helplessness.
The morphine was taken away because I wasn&#8217;t using it. An Irish night nurse (lovely voice) only came in a couple of times during the night. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>15. go-between for fluids</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=231</link>
		<comments>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=231#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting a bit queasy, earlier. Priscilla visited and assured me the bladder bloat was normal. She said the fluids would suddenly pass-through more rapidly and that my tummy should start to rumble.

She was right. Daniel decided to wash me and with Mari&#8217;s help they got me up and into a chair.
Susan arrived and read some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>14. Sister morphine</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=209</link>
		<comments>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=209#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[blood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here I lie in my hospital bed&#8230;rattly voice and a little hazy. It&#8217;s morning and painful to move..
Yesterday morning, after the check in process, my nurse, Daniel measured me up for some latex stockings. Theses are to stop me getting embolisms while I lie around. He attached wrist and ankle bracelets and got me to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13. The Ashdown Cycle</title>
		<link>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=184</link>
		<comments>http://www.pockley.org/prostate/?p=184#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 05:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The CRP tests have given Martin Ashdown the data to pick up my oscillation. It appears my cycle has a periodicity of about 6 days. I&#8217;m not sure how to display the vertical line that occurs at 7.5 days (format incompatibility). This line marks the treatment window.  When treatment occurs in this window the [...]]]></description>
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