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Bravo
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9 years ago

To sorb or not to sorb

Help! I am being inundated with creams and ointments. The 5 weeks of radiation have netted me a dozen tubes of sorbolene, 2 of a cortisone cream, about 4 of solugel, and various others such as pure aloevera and a lignocaine cream. Then there's the packages of swabs, bandages and dressings they keep giving me as well.
I had 6 kids and never owned so much as a thermometer. Our medicine box only had a box of bandaids and some panadol in it. My tube of dermacort lasts for 10 years. Now I own 3 lifetimes worth of sorbolene! 
What do people with it all once the radiation and after effects settle down? 

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  • Bravo's avatar
    Bravo
    Member
    9 years ago
    Solugel is being poured into the bra cup every four hours now. I gave up on the little squares of gauze and dressing. Breast is swimming contentedly in a soup of gel. Bra has a slight leakage problem but no worse than when I used to breastfeed. Sorbolene is under the laundry sink!
  • Bravo's avatar
    Bravo
    Member
    9 years ago
    I arrived at the hospital today and was given a brown paper bag full of more dressings and more tubes of ointment. I daren't say no because perhaps they know something I don't. That my breast will need litres of ointment thrown at it in the next two weeks. (I am getting rather liberal in applying it already) In two months I will set up a lemonade stand on my front lawn, and give away sorbolene and solugel on the side.
  • Hulos's avatar
    Hulos
    Member
    9 years ago
    Hi, i start  my radiation at the end of the month, i only have sorbelene in a litre bottle, if you were close by id say I'll take take them from you,  but it looks like they just need to go  into a bin some time down the track  to save space in your cupboards..
  • Melsie97's avatar
    Melsie97
    Member
    9 years ago
    I still Sorb morning and night. I finished radiation almost two months ago
  • Bravo's avatar
    Bravo
    Member
    9 years ago
    I might ask the hospital if they want the unopened tubes back.
  • Zoffiel's avatar
    Zoffiel
    Member
    9 years ago
    You move it from cupboard to cupboard then it ends up under the laundry sink then you throw it out :)