The lymphedema is, fortunately, 95% in my breast itself, so it's not affecting my ability to move. It just hurts and needs to be massaged out several times a day. It's very strange being in PT for a body part I can't move.
I'm very glad that I'm not getting bad side effects from the tamoxifen the way some people seem to. Mainly, I just need to have our ceiling fan running if it gets anywhere over 68F in our bedroom at night. I'm kind of not looking forward to how summer will be when we keep things 78-80F at night.
I think... For me, cancer was just one more bit of nastiness that my body was pulling on me. My sister has taken it very hard because she's always been physically healthy. Now she's having physical problems that she can't just will herself to get past.
A lot of people thought that I seemed very calm, but my anxiety spiked pretty badly. It's just that all of it came out as headaches and joint aches and poor sleep as opposed to panic.
I'm very lucky. It's ten minutes drive to where I get treatment, $9 (plus tip) each way for a cab. Most of the time, I had local friends who were able to drive me back and forth to radiation, but having the option of a cab was really reassuring. The bus would have been free, but it would have required a good bit of walking, and I really wasn't up to it.
As to the user name, some friends came up with it in college, in the 1980s, in response to a role playing character I ran. At first, they tried to say it was 'The Really Cool Kid,' but they eventually admitted that it was 'The Red Cross Knight' from The Faerie Queen. I haven't read that, but my impression is that he's an over the top sort who never thinks that he might lose (the character I was playing didn't so much think that she wouldn't lose as that, if she did lose, she'd be dead, so she might as well talk like she was going to win).
I hate coming up with handles, so I've stuck with this one for a very long time.
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Date: 2016-03-10 01:21 am (UTC)I'm very glad that I'm not getting bad side effects from the tamoxifen the way some people seem to. Mainly, I just need to have our ceiling fan running if it gets anywhere over 68F in our bedroom at night. I'm kind of not looking forward to how summer will be when we keep things 78-80F at night.
I think... For me, cancer was just one more bit of nastiness that my body was pulling on me. My sister has taken it very hard because she's always been physically healthy. Now she's having physical problems that she can't just will herself to get past.
A lot of people thought that I seemed very calm, but my anxiety spiked pretty badly. It's just that all of it came out as headaches and joint aches and poor sleep as opposed to panic.
I'm very lucky. It's ten minutes drive to where I get treatment, $9 (plus tip) each way for a cab. Most of the time, I had local friends who were able to drive me back and forth to radiation, but having the option of a cab was really reassuring. The bus would have been free, but it would have required a good bit of walking, and I really wasn't up to it.
As to the user name, some friends came up with it in college, in the 1980s, in response to a role playing character I ran. At first, they tried to say it was 'The Really Cool Kid,' but they eventually admitted that it was 'The Red Cross Knight' from The Faerie Queen. I haven't read that, but my impression is that he's an over the top sort who never thinks that he might lose (the character I was playing didn't so much think that she wouldn't lose as that, if she did lose, she'd be dead, so she might as well talk like she was going to win).
I hate coming up with handles, so I've stuck with this one for a very long time.