Janet's blog

 I have taken the exercise plunge and done two days of Couch to 5K. Started Wednesday - damp and drizzly and there was a need to gather some allotment produce. No question of doing the running bits with a bag on my back, so I had to wear footwear suited to digging a couple of leeks from saturated ground. I certainly didn't want to wear my nice, new, luminously white Christmas-present-from-son trainers on such a filthy day.  So I downloaded the first day's encouraging spiel and set off in walking boots, muddy trackies, old hoodie and allotment coat, ears wired. The 20-minute routine took me to the allotment,  round the site twice and then back and forth in front of the (closed for foreseeable future) trading shed. Confess that the wholly unsuitable gear built me a good excuse to walk the whole lot if necessary, but I did manage it although the normal definition of 'run' took a beating. After the initial brisk walk, most of it felt pretty miserable; nay, nigh on impossibl...

I had had my suspicions. Rather a lot of short hairs that weren't the dog's collecting in the bath, but then everyone moults a bit. Cold head, but then the weather has been cold and miserable and we live in a cold house. I've had some sore-scalp-itchy-head moments, but then maybe I should have been washing my hair more often. Then I did the two-mirror thing after a shower to see if it was time to hack my hair about again, especially where it felt a bit straggly at the  nape.  Straggly nape went to low priority when I saw my thinning crown and early bald patch. Boohoo. On the plus side, I now feel justified in wearing a hat in the house. And hopefully, with poison chemo finished it will start growing back... I'm not going to cut it until it does. Had a scan a week ago in the main UCH building. For the first time I felt quite nervous about Covid but with an 8:15am appointment everything except the lift area was quite empty. I did try to avoid the lift area by using the st...