Sorry I havent been online for anyone who is a friend or been reading my blog. My laptop has been playing up at home so I think I finally got it resolved last night, at work at the moment and thought I would do a quick blog entry.
Dad was at the physio last Thursday and she confirmed that it is the tumour blocking the lymph node in his groin which is causing the fluid and swelling in his leg. His leg is massive, they fitted a compression sock for him to wear during the day. He was really sore after being at the physio. On the Friday he was in agony and mum got the doctor out which made me realise how bad in pain he was for a) for my mum to call the doctor out, b) for dad to let her and c) for mum not to go to her work on Friday afternoon. He had taken 3 of his breakthrough pain control relief (instant pain relief) this did no good. The doctor came out and prescribed him diclofenec which is a anti-inflammatory which I could not understand as that is for pulled muscles etc not fluid filled legs. He took 1 and it never done anything but I think his slow release painkiller that he takes twice a day was kicking in by that point so it settled a bit. I think it really rattled me and mum that has been the worst day so far with regards to his pain I know this will be the first of many days like this but it just took the wind out my sails.
I am feeling really drained with all this, I barely sleep, I constantly worry about dad and mum and worry about how I am going to cope when the 'time' comes. It is just really draining, I am so run down, I have had a cold now for 6 weeks and various other symtoms of being run down. Sorry went into a little personal moan there.
T x
