Tag: health
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Summer Tips & Promises
It’s June, lymphies! Can you believe it? This year is already halfway over; it’s amazing how quickly the months pass. I wish I could be as excited about the summer as everyone else seems to be, but I’m already a little panicky. We’re right at the cusp of one of the most uncomfortable seasons for…
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Self Care for Lymphedema Management – Get To Know Your Neck!
The following is a guest post from Toronto Physiotherapy: As a Certified Decongestive Therapist trained in manual lymphatic drainage, and a Registered Physiotherapist, I’m often asked by my lymphedema patients why I am so focused on the neck during my lymphatic massage treatments, even when the Lymphedema is presenting in an arm or leg. The…
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Lymphedema vs Edema
When I was in treatment for my eating disorder, the doctors warned me that I may experience edema as a side effect of the “re-feeding process,” meaning I may have some swelling in addition to the chronic swelling I already had with lymphedema. I was scared, because I thought it would permanently affect my leg –…
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Cautious (but big!) Hope
Some good news for breast cancer patients with secondary lymphedema: On March 6th – Lymphedema Awareness Day – researchers presented investigational pre-clinical data on the first potential pharmacologic agent used in combination with surgery for the treatment of breast cancer associated lymphedema (source). In layman’s terms, this team of researchers have gathered data that shows…
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Wishful Thinking vs Acceptance
How many times have you wanted to hear those words? I can’t even begin to count how often I have wished my lymphedema would just magically disappear, that someday I would wake up and my leg would be normal and I’d have the delicate ankles I had always wanted. How badly I’ve wanted to wear shorts…
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Thought for the Week
“Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” -Jim Rohn I have thought about this quote a lot recently, which means I probably need to write about it. Health – whether mental, physical, emotional, whatever– is pretty important, and if you don’t have health, then you really don’t have anything.…
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Waking up
Today was sort of a bad one for a couple of reasons. First of all, I had work, which is beginning to grate on me a little and I wasn’t too happy to be there. Then, my legs swelled a little more than usual thanks to the 100+ degree heat that has smothered Baltimore these…
