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4.5 miles done, 144 / 2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

“Normal.” Had to ask the nurse to repeat it over the phone.

“Normal.” Not a winner for talker of the world, or greatest rapport, but I could have kissed her down the phone line.

Waiting for chest x-ray results when you’ve unexplained occasional pains in the left part of chest under rib cage, where you heart is, and recent memory or exactly how your mum’s cancer-ridden death started (with an x-ray), is scary as fuck.

I don’t recommend it, if you can avoid it.

I’ll still need to go to doc to get the constant mild pain in the left jugular sorted, but generally, I trust that shedding the weight will fix the majority of my ills. so i’ll continue to do so.

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8.7 miles done, 140/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

Plodding along. Not loving the dozen or so sharp but minor synchronous pains in left of chest plus upper left back that happened over a few mins on walk to work. Not terrible, just weird. Perhaps I’m just a worrywart. Is that even a word?

Chest x-ray results tomorrow. Hope they just say “all clear big lad, come in for further checks to see if we can find what the occasional niggle in chest is, and let’s check out that persistent left jugular pain while we’re at it. Oh and keep on losing weight, it might fix itself as you stop being a fat bastard.” If they just say “yeah, you need to come and see a… consultant”, well, fuck that.

On the plus side, some of my trousers are getting a bit big, which is a good thing I suppose… but why can’t it happen on PAYDAY??

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6 miles done, 131/2500 miles to target. #GoTheDist

Cut short today, things to do. Only walked part way to work, walked to/from docs, walked home. Ho hum. Still at it though.

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8 miles done, 125/2500 miles down. #GoTheDist

Just a walk to work and back and a bit - bit late posting this, so walk was actually yesterday!

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4.5miles done, 117/2500miles down. #GoThedist

Not feeling it today, walk to work and lunch, but couldn’t be arsed walking any more, early night.

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7 miles done, 104/2500miles down. #GoTheDist

Left chest/left jugular niggly pains, so not running for now. Scan done today, results in a week. Pain in heart area comes and goes, pulses even, gets worse if I have a big meal so I don’t have big meals any more. I call it the “scared as fuck of dying diet”.™

Pain in left jugular area is all around there - upper left chest, neck, jugular, left ear, left shoulder. Is more prominent if I bend over to do things like tie shoelaces. Thinking of getting slip-ons. :)

Fasting Blood Lipids/Glucose/Cholesterol test pencilled in for Monday too.

Not letting it stop me walking, that’s low-BPM exercise anyhow. I’ll pause the C25K running program though - my intervals are typically 150-160bpm, which is 75-80% of max HR, so I’m not taking a risk.

Scared. I’ve had these pains for months, and should have sorted this before now. But I realise that these pains may be partly the reason for my horribly disgusting nightmares, where I’m dragged below ground, and have things thrust into my lungs, or crawl onto my brain etc. I literally FEAR falling asleep, so end up falling asleep at 3AMish.

Hopefully, HOPEFULLY, I’m just being paranoid, considering mum’s cough got worse and worse, and her cancer was only found when she was taken in with pains in her torso. It’s natural I’d be concerned, I guess.

If there’s some sort of thing there, or a narrowing or some bloodline somewhere, and they can deal with that, then knowing now is better than not knowing now.

All good vibes and prayers gratefully received. :)

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10 miles done, 97/2500miles down. #C25K #W2D3 #GoTheDist

WEE bit late late of the Week 2 Day 3 of the couch to 5K. Now just 15miles behind my 7m/day target! Knee still giving issue, otherwise, I’d do this deficit in two days…