Damn Swollen Arm!

While the surgery to pin the fractured bone from March seems to have healed brilliantly the lesion in the bone seems to be causing problems on and off. Basically if the arm isn't kept active, and it doesn't stay in a slightly elevated position especially when I sleep the arm, and especially the hand around the knuckles becomes very swollen and uncomfortable.

It's difficult to be pro-active about this because while you're asleep there is not a lot of control regards the position of the arm relative to the body; even if you start off in the right place it's all too easy for the arm to move while asleep. However it's something that I will just need to persevere with.

Allied to that the radiotherapy affected my hand in that the palm and tips of the fingers became sore to the touch rather like a burn (which I guess that's what it was).

We were prescribed a course of pyridoxine which I am still taking and that seems to help but again, as with a lot of these things its a slow process. What I have also been doing is treating the hand with aqueous cream that certainly moisturises the skin rapidly, and promotes an easing of the tightness and soreness of the skin, and cools the hand too. Aqueous cream is a simple thing but often these are effective, and it certainly seems to help.

Read about pyridoxine here

With reference to the weight loss that has been ongoing for some time i am now down to about 18 stones which means I have lost about 60 pounds. While I can afford to lose it I don't need it to continue and it does seem to be settling out now. What it has meant is that all my clothes like trousers, and shirts don't fit! A couple of months ago I bought a pair of trousers with a 50inch waist that fitted me at the time. We were going out the other day and when I went to put them on they were way to big in the waist again. I have just ordered a pair of 46inch trousers!