My internet is back up now. So I may be able to post more regularly. As it happens, I'm writing at least part of this at the hospital. I have a follow up with my surgeon today.
All my wounds are completely closed now. I still haven't finished shedding all the dead skin, which means I'm quite itchy in a number of places, but at least I know I'm healing. I still have most of the neuropathy, that I had after surgery, though some of it is slowly shrinking
The worst things that are going on now are 3 fold. 1) It would seem that a nerve or two has come too near the surface of my skin, as a result of all the treatment. 2) I have a lot of nerve regeneration pain, that occurs multiple times a day, at random. 3) And I have lymphedema in my left breast, which is causing significant swelling (inside the areola), unless I'm wearing a bra. Even with a bra, there is still some swelling where the bra doesn't provide support.
Day 2. Being as it is that I forgot to post the above yesterday, I'm just going to continue from here.
I had an appointment, just now, with a new doctor. He seems to think it would be a wise decision to remove the IVC filters (both of them), that I've had since 2012. The doctors, at the hospital where they were installed, never discussed this with me at all, except to say they would be permanent, if they could not be removed within a fairly
short period of time. And that time passed years ago. So I had long since grudgingly accepted them as a
permanent addition to my body.
Anyway, apparently both have parts poking out of the vena cava wall. And one of them is penetrating into my aorta.
So, as you might imagine, this new information comes as quite a shock to me. And it's more than a little frightening. I'm currently thinking that there is a threat either way. Removal or no removal, something could go horribly wrong.
Oh yeah, and removal involves a tool-wielding scope, inserted down one of my primary arteries, FROM MY NECK. OMG OMG OMG!
Day 3 of this post. It's Saturday now.
I've basically been just too good at avoidance, my dominant form of defense mechanism, today. Aside from a little art, and a lot of Netflix, I haven't completed (or even started) anything I should have done. It took a lot just to pull my head out of the sand long enough to "finish" this. So now I'm going to just stop here and post this.
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