Hospital Alert Systems for Lymphodema Arms

I went in for a reconstruction recently, so was in hosp(public) for a week,

and I dont think any of the nurses/other attending docs read the chart regarding non-use of my of left arm with lymphodema.

I basically told everyone, every day, as they walked around the bed to my "free" arm, it could not be used - my other arm had 2 cancula's so could not be used for blood pressure either.

I did have white sticky tape with texta writing - of "Do Not use this arm" high tech LOL

 But I feel lucky i was alert or woke up each time, to stop them using it.

I had blood pressure done on my leg (calf) - weird but better than my arms.  your BP is higher, but they are just looking for daily consistancy.  Alot of staff had never done blood pressure on a leg, so they were all learning something new.

and glad  that I can let bcna ladies know they have this option too.