I found that wall

Casjsa
Casjsa Member Posts: 181
edited November 2013 in Day to day

And much as I tried to steer around it, over it, under it, I hit it this afternoon.  I knew it was coming this morning.  I couldn't think of the name for a flat round disc that you put on a nut and bolt.  (a washer)  I knew that I was close to exhaustion.

So, I watched movies this afternoon, The Crimson Pirate with Kirk Douglas and The Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery.  I NEVER watch television movies during the day but I was incapable of doing anything else. 

I was asleep by 4.30pm and woke up at 7pm.  I'm swollen under my arm and hoping very much that there is no infection.  I've had a hot/cold pack under my arm on and off for an hour. 

Anyone else had this swelling that got painful?
Cas XX

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  • mum2jj
    mum2jj Member Posts: 4,317 ✭
    edited March 2015
    I was quite swollen under my arm after my surgery. It turned out to be a seroma. Keep an eye on your temp in case it is an infection. If it hasn't gone down tomorrow give your Dr a call. It's a while ago, but from memory he just drained it with a needle. It didn't hurt as the area was numb after surgery. Take care
    Paula
  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    Thanks Paula,

    It's been 3 weeks and I've been back to see him about fluid and he wasn't concerned about it.  It has only been today that under my arm has become sore and swollen.  I'm hoping it is because I've unwittingly put my arm up too high or jerked it.  I haven't felt hot and I've never owned a thermometre so I'm hoping it isn't an infection.  I will be careful though.  I might do Brisbane bra-less tomorrow.  Everyone walks around looking at the pavement there anyway so I hardly think I'll be noticed :P
    Cas x

  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    Thanks Paula,

    It's been 3 weeks and I've been back to see him about fluid and he wasn't concerned about it.  It has only been today that under my arm has become sore and swollen.  I'm hoping it is because I've unwittingly put my arm up too high or jerked it.  I haven't felt hot and I've never owned a thermometre so I'm hoping it isn't an infection.  I will be careful though.  I might do Brisbane bra-less tomorrow.  Everyone walks around looking at the pavement there anyway so I hardly think I'll be noticed :P
    Cas x

  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    Gosh you have been through the wringer a few times Paula.  I feel like a right whinger considering what you've had to undergo.  I hope you are doing well now?
    Cas x

  • mum2jj
    mum2jj Member Posts: 4,317 ✭
    edited March 2015
    You can generally tell if you have a fever. So you will probably know. The other thing you can do is call your breast care nurse if you have one, they are pretty switched on. I actually developed lymphedema, but that was more a gradual slow achy feeling rather than fast and swollen so prob not that... Hmmm not being much help am I. Still nice to share.
    Sending a hug your way.
    Paula.
  • mum2jj
    mum2jj Member Posts: 4,317 ✭
    edited March 2015
    You can generally tell if you have a fever. So you will probably know. The other thing you can do is call your breast care nurse if you have one, they are pretty switched on. I actually developed lymphedema, but that was more a gradual slow achy feeling rather than fast and swollen so prob not that... Hmmm not being much help am I. Still nice to share.
    Sending a hug your way.
    Paula.
  • mum2jj
    mum2jj Member Posts: 4,317 ✭
    edited March 2015
    However I to am a Queenslander and as Anna Bligh once said we breed them tough up here. On a serious note I am doing ok. Hoping to have my prophylactic mastectomy and double recon on Dec 4th. Fingers, toes and everything els crossed. Whinge away, that's what this site is for, just wish I'd found it earlier. The support is really great.
    Hugs.
    Paula :)
  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    Thanks,
    My breast care nurse, doesn't care one bit so not bothering to going there.  I might phone my GP and see what he thinks.  Not that I will have time to go and see him before Friday.  Hopefully it will die down overnight.  I think I overdid it expecting to be able to go to Brisbane every day from the Gold Coast and walk miles between television stations and the like.  I will take it easier this week (well try to anyway).

    I'll bet you're wishing the time to go faster so you can get all your operations done and get around to healing and feeling better again?
    You can have some of my hugs too and I might even let you hug my huge teddy bear that my son bought for me today.
    Cas x    (Just turned 20yo sons amaze you some days)

  • mum2jj
    mum2jj Member Posts: 4,317 ✭
    edited March 2015
    I'll take that hug. Thanks to your lovely son. Yes you have had a busy week. Still busy is good. Sad about your breast care nurse...that's her job to look out for you. I'm sure if it is anything significant you will get it sorted somehow. You seem a very determined person. Have every faith in you. Have a good week and I hope it turns out to be nothing.
    Yes will be good to get the surgery done. Because it's taken two years since last chemo to get to this point what with lymphedema and then research/ cancelled surgeries actually feel really well, and in a way it's hard to front up for a huge op again. However I keep telling myself that I want the other boob gone and want the recon so just have to man up and do it!!!
    Hugs to that teddy and you.
    Paula :)
  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    OK Mum, I will go and see my GP on Thursday after work unless it gets worse before then.  It isn't too bad this morning.  I know I should behave and rest and do what I'm told but I've never done that :)
    So.....today is day four of my six day journalism intensive and I can take anything I want to it, cushions, cold packs, go bra-less, no one bats an eyelid.  Thank god for these people who see and report hardships in all the different manifestations of the word.  They are holding my mind together while my body misbehaves.  The worst part is the hour in the train each way.  Good going there, it's a 8.30am train and only half full, coming home at 4.30pm is another story but I can do a "I'm going to collapse if you don't give me your seat" look quite well now.

    My son, for all my whinging about him at times doesn't drink, smoke or hang out with horrible people.  I could have done far worse.

    I'll see about getting a thermometre.  Maybe they will loan me one?
    Cas xx (more hugs for you Janey, you keep on my case all you want)

  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    I still don't know whether I should have gone the double mastectomy or not.  My surgeon is of the opinion if it's not broke don't fix it.  I just have to take his advice and trust that it is right.  My grandmother died of breast cancer but there is no incidences of it in my mother's generation so I'm told that it isn't close enough a relation for me to worry that I inherited a gene problem.  Therefore it is somewhat unlikely that the cancer will travel to or form in the other breast (his words not mine).

    It's the waiting that drives you batty isn't it?  I could have gone to the oncologist on the 8th of this month but I had workshop booked for months prior and I was going to that come hell or high water.  Next available appointment is the 22nd.  That's just for initial consult so probably more waiting for treatment if any.  I hate the waiting and the thought that the health system is so full of people suffering breast cancer.  It is just horrendous.

    I'll be here to chat to any time you want.  We might as well wait it out together hey?
    Cas x

  • jenpen
    jenpen Member Posts: 315 ✭
    edited March 2015

    Loving your wit Cas.....made me laugh out loud!

    Gotta laugh battling this crappy disease or we will all go batty hey?

    I had seroma under my arm.....had it drained twice and all good now....I was told to not do too much too but.......it's tricky hey?

    Good luck with the rest of your week

    Jenny x

  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    Thanks Jenny,

    You're right, this is a crappy disease and so is living with it and the fallout.  I'm determined to write about it but I'm battling an editor who doesn't understand and wants me to formulate it in a tried and true news format.  I don't really want to but as a journo I have less say than I do with my cancer treatment.

    I also ate something that doesn't agree with me.  So suffering through that as well.

    Cas x

  • Casjsa
    Casjsa Member Posts: 181
    edited March 2015

    Thanks Jenny,

    You're right, this is a crappy disease and so is living with it and the fallout.  I'm determined to write about it but I'm battling an editor who doesn't understand and wants me to formulate it in a tried and true news format.  I don't really want to but as a journo I have less say than I do with my cancer treatment.

    I also ate something that doesn't agree with me.  So suffering through that as well.

    Cas x

  • Elizebeth
    Elizebeth Member Posts: 80 ✭
    edited March 2015
    Hi Cas

    I also have a Seroma but mine is a leaking one...blew up like an egg one night on side of boob and then has been leaking ever since ....its a really slow process for me and I am being a couch potato...I have the PS, breast nurse and GP look at it and am also on antibiotics again so a check up is a good idea

    PS told me the body is trying to heal and sends fluid to the site bit it is tuff going

    Thinking of you

    Elizebeth

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