Terrianne, I had a prolonged experience with dressings after my lymph node clearance. It was so frustrating, especially as I’m a nurse & thought I’d be all over it! Make sure that if your wound is still oozing that the skin around it is well protected with barrier wipes (ask the wound nurse). Mine kept breaking down at different times, especially if the wipes weren’t used. I’m healed now - with an ugly scar, but it was a very trying time. I wanted to exercise, but didn’t want to risk my dressings getting sweaty or coming off. Hoping you don’t have the same dramas, but if you do, feel free to message me if you want to vent xo
Thank you :) I'm pretty ooze-free now - there's one little spot that the nurse thought might have been an issue, but only that little bit, and I'm not having any problems with it.
I'm still not at the stage of wanting to do much exercise - I went for a lap around the backyard several times yesterday, and today we made a very quick trip to see if the bra place had another of the post-surgical bras in stock (they don't, but one should be coming in today, so she'll hold it for me); those are enough to raise the heart rate a little and feel like I'm doing something.
