Some useful suggestions from you and other people. My father always took milk of magnesia for something or other. I can’t remember what. I don’t really have any muscle aches or joint aches. It’s my carpal tunnel that’s a problem which predates breast cancer by about ten years. I had an operation on one side which has made a big difference long term but I had excruciating nerve pain for six months after the op and could hardly use my hand during this period. I have joined a gym, swim weekly, do circuit training, walk every day for 45 mins with our dog, walk there and back to the nursing home where my mother is living now, spend ages each week moving stuff from her empty house to the recycling tip. I am on a diet of very healthy food. None of it stops me from feeling annoyed about being diagnosed with breast cancer again after 19 years and having a mastectomy. I had a reconstruction at the same time. It’s remarkable compared with the awful reconstructions they used to do in 2003 when I got diagnosed before. I have an aversion to hospitals going back to my childhood when my mother had postnatal psychosis and was locked up in a mental hospital in England when we lived in the Channel Islands. My brother had a lot of operations at Great Ormond Street on his club foot. We used to go and visit him and go to regular appointments there. Whether this has given me an aversion to hospitals is anyone’s guess. The number of doctors and nurses who have proved to be murderers doesn’t inspire me to do what I am told with a happy feeling. when I see a doctor I think Harold Shipman. Nurses - there’s quite a few examples but I won’t name them. Mind you there’s a few murderers around who haven’t been doctors, and I used to see one when I worked in East London years ago. It was Denis Nilsen. He worked sometimes in an office where I was a benefits clerk. Maybe it’s best not to trust anyone. Seagulls
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