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Feb. 3rd, 2016 11:40 amPT yesterday went pretty well. I like the therapist. She’s an Indian-American woman about ten years older than I am. She gave me a compression pad thingy to wear under my bra, but I’m not sure it’s going to work. She didn’t actually have my size, so she gave me the closest she had. The dratted thing adds nearly an inch to the size of my breast, so my bra doesn’t fit right over it (I looked into bigger bras, but this particular kind doesn’t come any bigger and is the only one I found with front closure at this size). The entire point is to have the pad pressing against the underside of my breast, but for that to happen, I pretty much have to hold it in place because that’s the spot where things not fitting right happens the most.
The pad is also very itchy. I can help that by wearing something thin underneath, and I’ve been going with nightgowns. That means I wear a nightgown, the pad, a bra, and then a shirt. Of course, when I wear a shirt, it’s harder to hold the pad in place, so I’m mostly not wearing a shirt. We’re expecting guests tonight, so I’ll have to do it then.
The therapist suggested that I wear the pad at night, too, but I’m not convinced it’s necessary. When I wake up every morning, my breast has only one, fairly small hard spot, so the swelling/fluid build up goes away over night, while I’m lying down. It gets steadily worse all day while I’m upright.
I’ve got four chores I definitely want to get to today: emptying the dishwasher, baking bread, a load of laundry, and shelving a few more books. If I get really ambitious, I can look into what it would cost to repair the loveseat and chair in the basement (the supporting straps under the seats have completely died and need to be replaced. We’ve been intending to get that done for several years now). None of this stuff is likely to take long. I’ve just been putting it off in hopes that the headache I woke up with would go away (instead, it’s gotten worse. Joy).
I finished two of my four library books last night. I think the remaining two will be harder. One is short but not precisely my sort of thing. The other is longer and is something I’ve barely started. I suppose I’ll see. And, of course, I’m not going to be doing any book reading while my head is still hurting.
The pad is also very itchy. I can help that by wearing something thin underneath, and I’ve been going with nightgowns. That means I wear a nightgown, the pad, a bra, and then a shirt. Of course, when I wear a shirt, it’s harder to hold the pad in place, so I’m mostly not wearing a shirt. We’re expecting guests tonight, so I’ll have to do it then.
The therapist suggested that I wear the pad at night, too, but I’m not convinced it’s necessary. When I wake up every morning, my breast has only one, fairly small hard spot, so the swelling/fluid build up goes away over night, while I’m lying down. It gets steadily worse all day while I’m upright.
I’ve got four chores I definitely want to get to today: emptying the dishwasher, baking bread, a load of laundry, and shelving a few more books. If I get really ambitious, I can look into what it would cost to repair the loveseat and chair in the basement (the supporting straps under the seats have completely died and need to be replaced. We’ve been intending to get that done for several years now). None of this stuff is likely to take long. I’ve just been putting it off in hopes that the headache I woke up with would go away (instead, it’s gotten worse. Joy).
I finished two of my four library books last night. I think the remaining two will be harder. One is short but not precisely my sort of thing. The other is longer and is something I’ve barely started. I suppose I’ll see. And, of course, I’m not going to be doing any book reading while my head is still hurting.
