Pain

I'm curious about who's 'responsibility' this pain is. The medical oncologist has referred me to a physio to help with my useless feet and tendonitis, because this is a recognised side effect of the chemo so at least I'm getting some treatment. How  much good that is doing is yet to be determined, but at least it isn't getting worse.

The business with the boob and the armpit? Well, that seems to be no-mans land. I'm done with the rad onc, so there is nothing to be gained there. My surgeon has finished with me, and I with him. It's not like he is going to go back in there and do something about it anyway and at our last meeting he told me things would improve with time. That's reassuringly vague, isn't it..

My poor GP is stuck in the middle not really knowing who she should be asking if this is 'normal' or not. I wasn't given any warning that I would be in more pain now than I was 12 months ago when I had a great lump of meat hacked out of my armpit so its all come as a bit of a surprise when I though I should be getting 'better' by now.

The physio, who is a lymphedema specialist, is now not sure if she should continue with massage to try to break up the persistent cording and scar tissue or whether that is only making things worse. I'm usually pretty good at self assessing but I'm stumped. On the great scale of 'everybody is different' there are some commonalities that we don't get told much about. Humph.