#lymphoedema — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lymphoedema, aggregated by home.social.
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@gsymon
""I was gaslighted by a rude doctor who said 'you're going to be in a wheelchair by the time your 35, so you better get in what you can get in now, and enjoy your life as it is. It's just swelling, there's nothing we can do about it'," she says."
Holy shit -
Maybe some #science lovers would like to go where no man has gone before?
#Lymphoedema #Health #Healthcare #BBC #BBCScience #Cancer
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241216-lymphoedema-the-hidden-pandemic-affecting-250-million
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BME cancer patients given wigs for white women and wrong coloured prosthetic breasts | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/cancer-patients-wrong-prosthetics-wigs-b2582196.html#BreastCancer
#Cancer
#BME
#POC
#Wigs
#ProstheticBreasts
#SkinColour
#MentalHealth
#WigsNotDesignedForEthnicMinorities
#InstitutionalRacism
#Ignorance
#Racism
#Prejudice
#UnconsciousBias
#BlackWomenRising
#RoyalMarsden
#Lymphoedema
#LynphoedemaSleeves
#Macmillan
#NHS
#HealthInequalities
#HealthCare
#CancerCare -
I'm at the AGM for the #Lymphoedema Support Network today and have just found out there's apparently a lymphatic system around the brain which could have all kinds of implications for understanding Alzheimer's and those with lymphoedema - fascinating!