Be grateful that's all.

The challenge is to raise money for the Samaritans which I believe is one of the most important charities there is in our modern world. So many people out there just need someone to talk to. Lots of the people doing the challenging have suffered themselves from poor mental health and are only alive today because they rang the Samaritans.

Last night, we were accompanied by a very inquisitive young 🦊 fox. He or she, walked along with us in two sections of the walk. I think he was enjoying himself and of course my daughter was over the moon to see a real life fox with no fear just walking with us sometimes less than 20 ft away.

The walk was nice, it was warm for October and I was dressed for an arctic expedition😀

That was last night today is now, I’ve been called back to the hospital and I’m in the cafe recovering from the experience.🥵

So was asked by the oncology dept to come in see the Dr let’s call him Dr X

Dr X politely introduced himself, had I noticed how big his fingers were then and not known what was coming up next l probably wouldn’t have given it a second thought. Had I known what was coming next it might of been a different story. Anyway five minutes later one of those chunky fingers was exploring my bottom, he was checking my prostate. There wasn’t no formalities , I don’t usually do this on first dates kind of thing, no messing about , turn over please Mr Woodward and then bosch, I think Bosch is the most appropriate word I could think of at the time, I didn’t think it was approprite to ask him to be gentle, he was on a mission. And he was late for his next patient.

Well that was fun, I walked down the corridor with a slightly wider gate than usual, I had to sit down and grab a cup of coffee with chocolate sprinkles of course, I mean I bloody  deserved it, right! ☕

I then got stuck in the local town traffic coming home, normally I might of got a little fed up with the queues, but you no what, they just don’t matter anymore. I mean when you’ve got super tramp on tap in a car that’s got a fairly good sound system in it, it would be rude to not crank it up a tad, and whilst I’m at it let’s not be selfish Woody let’s share it out, so windows down and not moving very fast I treated everyone around me to a bit of breakfast in America and why not 🎵🎶🎷🎸🎹🎺

2.31am

Woke up with massive hot flush, I’m soaking wet, at least I know the hormone injection is working, and Im grateful too it, yes it’s not very nice, but it’s fighting for me and that’s fine by me.

I’m finally getting the garden fence fixed today and it’s the original young lad that I said last week, he lowered his price. Some of the quotes were rediculous, the type of quote that really said I don’t want this job. I can hear an emergency response vehicle, I think it’s an ambulance. I miss my old life as an ambulance instructor and every time I hear the wail or the yelp of an ambulance it takes me right back to me sitting in the passenger seat coaching a student through traffic. I miss that and look forward to doing it again. 

So the next thing is a biopsy which is another little trip to my 2nd home the hospital. It sounds funny but I actually really like the hospital. I was having a cup of coffee yesterday in the hospital and just sat and watched the hustle and bustle of life in a hospital. It’s a facinating place, nurses rushing around, porters doing their amazing job. Groups of doctors, have you noticed they always appear in a group, confirming notes, with each other, then you have your cleaners. They do a marvelous job just keeping the place clean and safe as best they can, it’s a community of people all helping us to get better

Thank you NHS 💚