Any day now marks 20 years since the wedding when I dislocated my right ankle and broke the medial malleolus … More
Tag: lymphedema
Chin up: Moving on
This is the last part of the story of my recovery process. And so? What do I do with what’s happened to me?
Chin up: Rewriting the past
A summary of all the problems throughout my life caused by a lymphatic system blocked by fungal overgrowth.
The undoing: Feelings
The emotional fallout from fixing myself.
The undoing: Toilet taboos
My experience of being on the loo leash.
The undoing: Biomechanical rehabilitation
The long process of putting right what had gone wrong with how my body moved.
The undoing: The day-to-day process
Here are the details of what my process of healing has involved.
Revelations: Fungal overgrowth, blocked lymph, and a busted ankle
So if I don’t have MS, then what is the problem?
The undoing: Interferon be gone 2013–2015
The first two years after stopping Avonex injections.
The doing: Intermittent self-catheterisation
This one’s about when I had to manually empty my bladder twice a day.