Tag: primary lymphedema
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Tell your story!
Submit your story to the Lymphie Life! Use the contact form here to share your personal story of living with lymphedema, and, with your permission, it’ll be posted on the website. Reading each others’ stories are a nice reminder that we aren’t alone, so reach out and share yours today!
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Yesterday’s Overdue Appointment
It’s been a while since I’ve gone to my lymphedema clinic — three years, to be exact!
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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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“The Lymphie Life” Comic
During the spring semester I took a sequential art class, where I practiced drawing things like comic strips, story boards, and graphic novels. I saw it as a great opportunity to do something Lymphie-related and soon came up with a short story about a teenage girl, Minnie, who has lymphedema in her leg. She’s incredibly…
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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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LympheDIVAS new patterns are in!
LympheDIVAS have just released their Spring Patterns, and they are gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. What’s even better is that you can get free shipping on any of these new patterns between now and May 8th – just enter the code MAY12FLOWERS at checkout. Click on any of the images to be taken to the product page: What I…
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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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It has begun..
The warm weather, that is. Where I live in Vermont, it has crawled into the 70s and 80s already. Yesterday, I got my first sunburn! Has nature forgotten that it’s only MARCH? Yikes. Today, though, I’m prepared: I donned my compression garments, put on a pair of linen pants, and a light top. I’m a little…