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flaviomatani) wrote2022-08-12 10:00 am
flaviomatani) wrote2022-08-12 10:00 am
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various health things not interesting to anybody else
This is for the most part for my own records.
The horrible rash that I've been having for the last month of so seems to be finally receding a little bit. My legs are still red and the skin is flaky but, if it still itches, at least it is not burning. It still looks like a burn, though. Local dermatologist thinks it is fungal ('there's no fun in fungi...') but .. the first two things she prescribed didn't work at all; she said (and this makes sense) that all treatments for these are specific to each type of fungus. She prescribed me a third one.. on applying which my legs became angry red and with the sensation of a second degree burn. When I finally got through to the doctors they prescribed a corticosteroid which at least has diminished the burning sensation but of course doesn't solve the cause of the problem. Small steps, though. Also, why always on holidays? I went down with covid on the Easter break, now this in the middle of the summer holiday and the worst heat wave I've seen in this country.
The other issue was a constant (albeit with varying degrees of intensity) pain in the inguinal region - this was enough to worry the UCLH surgeon who operated me back in November who examined me in person and sent me for a CT scan. Nothing came up (I was fearing a hernia, having been warned how easy it was to get one after this particular operation). Mysteriously, the pain has, if not gone away, receded back to a 1 or 2 in a scale of 10.
There are also the inevitable, gross and disgusting and possibly life changing, consequences of the surgery (not of the cancer that necessitated the surgery -if there had been symptoms it would have been too late). As I said, all gross and disgusting and possibly life changing. Won't go into any of that here but they exist and I have to deal with them.
Various other things turn up as you get older. Alas, time doesn't pass in vain and things break, they don't unbreak (second law of thermodynamics again). I still think that I am not in bad form for somebody having reached this age which I never thought I would, but time takes its toll. The worst one was that cancer last year, of course, but there are many niggly little things that keep accumulation. Is that why old people so often become short-tempered and angry?
I hope I'm not becoming short tempered or angry just yet, although alas, there is plenty in the world to be angry about.
The horrible rash that I've been having for the last month of so seems to be finally receding a little bit. My legs are still red and the skin is flaky but, if it still itches, at least it is not burning. It still looks like a burn, though. Local dermatologist thinks it is fungal ('there's no fun in fungi...') but .. the first two things she prescribed didn't work at all; she said (and this makes sense) that all treatments for these are specific to each type of fungus. She prescribed me a third one.. on applying which my legs became angry red and with the sensation of a second degree burn. When I finally got through to the doctors they prescribed a corticosteroid which at least has diminished the burning sensation but of course doesn't solve the cause of the problem. Small steps, though. Also, why always on holidays? I went down with covid on the Easter break, now this in the middle of the summer holiday and the worst heat wave I've seen in this country.
The other issue was a constant (albeit with varying degrees of intensity) pain in the inguinal region - this was enough to worry the UCLH surgeon who operated me back in November who examined me in person and sent me for a CT scan. Nothing came up (I was fearing a hernia, having been warned how easy it was to get one after this particular operation). Mysteriously, the pain has, if not gone away, receded back to a 1 or 2 in a scale of 10.
There are also the inevitable, gross and disgusting and possibly life changing, consequences of the surgery (not of the cancer that necessitated the surgery -if there had been symptoms it would have been too late). As I said, all gross and disgusting and possibly life changing. Won't go into any of that here but they exist and I have to deal with them.
Various other things turn up as you get older. Alas, time doesn't pass in vain and things break, they don't unbreak (second law of thermodynamics again). I still think that I am not in bad form for somebody having reached this age which I never thought I would, but time takes its toll. The worst one was that cancer last year, of course, but there are many niggly little things that keep accumulation. Is that why old people so often become short-tempered and angry?
I hope I'm not becoming short tempered or angry just yet, although alas, there is plenty in the world to be angry about.