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After being in hospital for my mastectomy, the nurses were forever trying to use the arm that I had lymph nodes removed. I kept telling them that they are not suppose to use that arm for anything b...
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I wa told by oncology nurses that using the lymph affected arm for needles was undesirable but possible. I understood that the aversion was purely to avoid any risk of infection (always really sensible in a hospital where some nasty germs lurk) just in case as fixing infection in a lymphoedeic arm can be much harder. Wearing a pressure sleeve, I have never quite understood the issue about blood pressure!