Thank you so much for the replies, Chris and Gill, really encouraging to know I’m not alone..I am ringing a contact number today to see if I can sort out some counselling or CBT, whatever, to help. It really hits me hard sometimes and makes me feel life, good life, is over, you know ? Awful. I’ve had depression in the past and it’s not nice.
Been doing the arm and shoulder exercises, but sometimes only once a day, I admit..and having a physio for a sister is very handy, Chris, even if she sounds a taskmaster ! 😄 - I will try the jar-opening exercises, that’s a great tip.
Drinking water and putting on the cream.. yes...
I had an awful fright yesterday too, I stupidly upended half a bottle of hydraulic oil all over myself, on my bad side too...! - while helping to do a mechanical job on the boat. (Concentration is not good at the mo and I can’t use chemo brain as an excuse, but that’s what it felt like!) I forgot completely that there was no bottom on this plastic bottle, (it was upended to drain the oil into the steering, can’t explain better, sorry) and when finished, I just turned it right way up...stupidly...Oil everywhere...boat is in a right mess, and I was worse!
Had to rush down to the shower block- thank goodness there’s a shower ! - and wash off the oil that was all over arm, clothes, bra and boob... I was convinced it was stinging the skin on my hand, and was imagining the arm visibly swelling with Lympho ..Other people must’ve thought I was nuts racing down marina with a towel and shower gel while clad (braless) in husband’s spare trackies and sweatshirt !
Good grief. Well it made me momentarily forget the aches and pains I’ve been getting !
How to get rid of oil smell on good jeans 🤔😄 ? (I’ll stick to housework and trying to get the garden less like a jungle, safer than messing about in boats at the mo...)
Regards, and thanks again, ladies !
Helen (Thistle) xxx
