Several weeks ago I posted about having been hospitalized for five days for a staph infection at my mast site, when surgery was almost a year previous. (I am now officially a ONE YEAR SURVIVOR!) No one can figure out how I got the infection, surgeon, onc, me, nurses, no ideas. No one knows of this ever happening before. So now I am super paranoid about every little scratch etc. Have always been rather fastidious about hygiene and moisturizing, etc.
My question now concerns the pain at the mast site and radiated area that I continue to have as well as being basically exhausted most of the time. My white counts are good, my red counts are all down, but not to the point of anemia. Am still taking antibiotics because one area along surgical line seems warm, although I have no fever and white count is 6.5 to7. The pain at mast site seems to follow along the radiated area and feels somewhat like radiation pain, except under the skin only. Tightness and pulling etc. Sort of seems like I've gone back to pain I had after surgery and radiation. Could this be some type of radiation necrosis?
All combined have managed to make me feel pretty down. Every time I start to feel like I'm getting back to "normal" something else crops up. Thankfully, so far none has been recurrence--so that is a positive.
Any words of wisdom, advice or anything?
Sassy
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