Hi Everyone,
Dick has been out of the hospital for a month now and he is feeling stronger every day. He is going to the gym for a lighter workout and gaining some weight back.
However, he is having some bad lymphedema in his right leg and today it is in his left leg. He has been seeing a pt who has some experience with lymphatic message and he is doing lymphatic message on himself 3 times a day. It is better than it was but is still really frustrating because it appears to be progressing. Dick had numerous lymph nodes removed 2.5 years ago on his right side.
He saw his oncologist today and all his blood numbers are good including his CEA which is down to 1.9 (the highest his CEA has ever been is 4.7 and that was in September when we saw some spread and switched chemo). He is off all pain meds too. His onc said he was concerned that it might be more cancer in the lymph nodes and wants to scan after Christmas, in January.
For those of you who have had lymphedema can you please share your information? Did it ever improve or just get worse?
Thanks for everything.
Aloha,
Kathleen