New year New Ewe?

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Round 4 came and went between Christmas and New Year - relatively easy and then we enjoyed New year and the following week of holiday.

Then at the weekend before school starts my body decided to crumble. An enormous ulcer on the side of my tongue gave me an instant sppech impediment and then a painful lump appeared on the back of my left hand disabling my ability to write!

A nice young Indiandoctor in A&E xrayed it and told me it was a ganglion which was ironic for an RE teacher as tradition has it you bash one of those with a Bible! However it was too painful to contemplate so it was a splint, massive antibiotics and painkillers instead.

My GP took a look at it on Monday and signed me off for a fortnight. This caused me a day of anxiety as I contemplated the chaos of returning a fortnight into term with 120 $th year reports and 2 classes of preliminary Higher exams in the interim but resigned myself to giving into the pain and taking it like maternity leave (after all the chemo is like pregnancy so why not have a few late mornings in PJs and do lunch withsome friends!)

One week in and my tongue is sorted and my hand getting there - now to pstch myself up for session 5 o Wednesday!

Anonymous
  • Hi Allmandy

    You made me smile about the ganglion sorry maybe I shouldn't have they are very painful but it brought back memories 

    Many years ago my Mum had a ganglion and was told by everyone to hit it with the family bible which she did bit daft as it just increased the pain the family bible is huge. Appears you are a lot more sensible.

    Glad you are improving and hope you enjoyed PJ days and lunch with friends 

    Good luck with session 5 

    Scraton x

     

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hi Scraton,

    Thanks for you good wishes. The ganglion is still there but not as painful so the splint and the anti inflamatories are the way to go. Spoke to the physio this morning and she has booked me an appointment next week and keeps talking about ultra - sound so my be this is the modern version of the Bible - blast it with ultra sound??!!

    Anyway 2 more lunch days before the next treatment so I will just have to wait and see. Don't we always!

    Mandy