I thought I had finished with this blog and had even been too lazy to close it properly. I had passed all my six-month tests and I thought I was on pretty safe ground for a year or two anyway but sadly I was wrong and now I have to reopen my story.
There's a lot of catching up to do simply because I just haven't had the energy to get things moving before now.
As I said I had got through all the tests in early summer without a hitch though I had noticed that my right leg was a bit swolen a fact that I mentioned to one of the nurses during the checks. She advised me to see my GP about it which I did.
She thought it was probably lymphadema caused by the fact that most of the lymph nodes in my right groin had been removed with my bladder and that the drainage in that leg was compromised. She was concerned that I might have DVT but the tests for that came back negative.
The leg was a bit red so I was prescribed antibiotics in case there was an infection.
Discussing treatment there seemed to be very little the NHS could offer except support stockings & I didn't fancy that for the rest of my life and anyway it could take ages to get them sorted out so I decided to go privately for manual lymphatic drainage which I had heard could be pretty effective.
I attended a couple of sessions and they certainly did appear to help as I found getting my shoe on and off much easier after them but I never had a chance to finish the course of treatment.
During the week before the August bank holiday Ann & I both seemed to have the same Summer bug as we were both a bit "one degree under". Ann's symptoms subsided slowly but mine actually got a bit worse. On the Tuesday I had really struggled for energy just walking to and from the village shops about a mile away and then came Friday.
I'll break off here and do another post later.
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