Hoping for help in August

Hi Folks,

Never knew when I last wrote June 16th the pain that was coming ahead. Again I'm not the norm from what they told me. Should have had discomfort for 4 or 5 days after the tattooing....discomfort was not the word....hit the level 7 on the 10 scale for the next 10 days. Thankfully on the 11th day it started to lessen some. I'm running on about a 3 or 4 by end of the day.

I'm encouraged after my appointment last Thur. (June 28th) when I went down to Denver for a consultation with Julia Osborne (PT,CMLDT) who is the Clinic Director for Oncology, Women's Health. She specialized with gals with mastectomy pain and manual lymph drainage.

Her opinion is that I've never had real healing time since this began. That the whole area is inflamed...nerve endings, muscles and tissue. She says the therapy I had at the end of March in Tx. was MUCH TO AGGRESSIVE. (I had my reports faxed from Tx. to her.)
I knew it was aggressive when I had to continue BIG pain pills and ice.....and for 10 minutes each hr. I would do the exercises at home plus the 3 times a week I was at the therapist. I was willing to go through the pain....thinking that it would help in the end!

My frustration was not KNOWING what was good for my body. I've never been on this path before and if you are now.......maybe you body is different and it would work for you. I'm sure the therapist in Tx. thought they were doing what was right....I was also told she worked with gals with mastectomy pain?????

The part that I'm disappointed with now is that I can't start treatments until Aug. 7th....she is booked solid. I will then go once a week down the mountain to Denver for an hour of therapy. During the hour time we had last Thur...she spent the last 15 minutes on ONE side of GENTLE (the same pressure you would pet a cat!!) to see if I could see a difference when I got up. Maybe it was positive thinking but ...it had lessened the pain a little. She gave me 3 exercises to do twice a day ....same press sure as petting a cat....until I can see her.

So counting the days until Aug 7th and hoping there might be a cancellation before then.

That's the journey for now.....thanks so much for your continued prayers! They are precious as gold to me!!

Loving Him and YOU,
Donna