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Prostate Cancer steals men’s lives, but even if it doesn’t kill, it and other Prostate abnormalities can rob men of their dignity and often take away the defining ability of being “a man”.  Even where diagnosis is incomplete and the prognosis unknown, effects can be debilitating and distressing, with the “watch and wait regime” casting an ever-present gloom over daily life for years into an uncertain future, sometimes for the remainder of life.

Having myself run the full, and amazingly thorough, gamut of NHS testing including: Catheter Imaging Urology, Ultrasound, an MRI Scan and finally a Transperineal Biopsy, whilst very thankful at not receiving the worst diagnosis, at the same time, also not being “out of the woods yet” is to be in a different kind of Limbo.  Research is urgently needed, so that that the next generation of men do not have to fear a prostate cancer diagnosis as an early death sentence, nor fear that even if their condition will not be immediately fatal, they will suffer debilitating and distressing symptoms for the rest of their lives.

After the biopsy, cycling was impossible for me, the main load-bearing area in contact with the saddle being far too tender!  This was still true even after some months, and so cycling was very reluctantly taken off the exercise menu.  The recent Lockdown drove me to try cycling again, and happily discovering it is now again possible for me, to energise fundraising for this important research, my goal is to try to raise £500 by reaching 500 miles on my bike by the end of July.

A modest target by the standards of many, but since I hadn’t ridden for nearly two years until a couple of weeks ago, and I’ll be 69 years old before it ends, I reckon it will be challenge enough.  My job is to keep the miles rolling so you will donate.  Your job is to keep the pounds coming in to encourage me to cycle the miles.  It’s a race: I hope the pounds win.