I've had a cold.  Not an ordinary one, of course, post cancer every last sniffle is a cause for concern.  No, this cold was on a par with man flu.  For three weeks it has been lingering.  Symptoms included shivering, heavy legs and rivers of snot.  Snot like you wouldn't believe.  Tissue after tissue after tissue.

What do you do when it is the first time you've been ill since the end of your cancer treatment?  Panic?  Take it calmly?  Be reassured by people saying 'there is a lot of it about'?  I did all three, culminating in a visit to the Dr, just to check.

I worry about my chest.  About pneumonia.  About lung cancer.  This is how it starts.  A cold that won't shift.  A chest infection that lingers.  It isn't always the cancer that kills you.  

So I haven't run for ten days.  The first time I tried to (last Sunday), it was agony.  every step felt as if I was being hit in the face with a wet fish.  I could hardly do it for two minutes.  I feel the small strides I had made have been wiped out.

Back to the drawing board.