h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Went to a kitchen show-room today. The guy we were talking to, who is the same person as it turns out, who's just done the design for a friend's new kitchen, turned out, to have worked in a shop, back in my hometown. Not a kitchen shop, a food-store.... and lived just a couple of miles from where I was born

went to the gym yesterday. Bumped into my osteoporosis Dr/consultant, taking his daughter to ballet (W won't let me do ballet....) He recognized W, as by that point I was already squatting in the weight room

Starting to use the weights a bit differently; as I'm not allowed to increase the weight, due to the busted aorta, I've begun doing the reps, a vast amount slower. which, wow... makes a huge deifference; normally I'd do 20 reps of curls, reverse grip curls, raises, squats, shoulder shrugs, upright row, etc, but, slowing it right down, after just five reps, the muscles are shaking... - so I guess its working the muscles a lot harder, without having to increase the weight. hmm... judging by my arms, and the muscles either side of my spine, its working

Also been doing a lot of stuff on flexability at the gym; in particular trying to losten up my hamstrings... - even as a kid they were always rubbish; and, in just a week or so of doing a few stretches on them, I can see its made a vast difference already; I can now touch my toes; and the ground beyond, without flexing the leg at the knee

Talking of osteoporosis Drs, as we were; just the day before we bumped into him, he sent me a letter. - agreeing with me, and that my approach is more sensible - who's the scientist? so we've postponed the bisphosphonate infusion, and canceled the Febuary bone density scan, and now just waiting for a new, sooner, bone density scan; after that I'll have to consider what the situation is, as regards having bisphosphonates or not.

Testosterone has continued to sink lower. - a few clues of which, my hair is in better condition than useual; my legs don't need shaving and, it takes about half the time it normally does, to shave my chin/beard all of which are nice side effects - oh, and my skin texture has changed, slightly.... and, no chest hair has dared to re-grow
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oddly. I'm a lot more higher libido than previous months and, testicular volume/size has increased, as there isn't the exoginious androgen present to cause further atrophy of the glandular tissues - maybe a periodical 'drug holiday', from the testosterone would a good idea be.... If only the NHS would offer an alternative treatment, HCG or similar in order to retain indoginious androgen production

but... on the negative... - I didn't thinkI was going to make the walk to the kitchen shop today.... just so weak.... hard to describe, its just a bit, I guess, like feeling the muscles, my body, can't retrieve any energy to power it - mind, the heat out didn't help today

did laundry this morning, must go check that, see if the first load has finished drying yet....

The gym has been helping a lot with energy whilst my testosterone is low (not entirely sure how that works, but it seems too); but I'm really flagging on the cardio front at the gym, whilst its low like this <
if not before, the testosterone injection, at the 14 week mark, is Friday coming; I got a automated TXT about it, a day ago...
oddly, also, I think, I'm a bit less brain fog-full ATM.... not sure if that's a consequence of the testosterone levels being low... - well I'm assuming they are low ATM, will find out, in a week or so; as they take a blood sample, before each new IM injection of the testosterone, to check on the trough level