Today's Update

- So it looks like I have some edema issues in my left leg. I got some compression boots (ones that inflate with air to simulate massage and to help reduce swelling) a while ago, for review, and it took until this week to try them, and I was amazed at how much smaller my legs and feet looked after using them. But my leg leg seems to show a more pronounced change than the right one, and more than that, my left leg can't fit into the boots as well as my right leg. It's larger, and it seems like it's larger from fluid build-up. I can't say for sure why that leg is retaining fluid more than the other one, or how long this has been going on. I suspect it's due to my lymphatic system, since pretty much all the other potential reasons for leg swelling don't make sense given the presentation and history. If so, it's not that the lymphatic system is completely shot in that leg, or else I'd see worse swelling.

But some years ago, I took a bad fall on an icy day, and ended up with damaged nerves in that leg. The nerves might have recovered, had it not been for the critically low B12 levels I didn't know I had at the time, but even once I got on B12 injections, nerve damage can't always recover, and there's a large patch on my leg leg that can pretty much only register numbness or pain. And that kind of damage can mess up the lymphatic system. So it's distinctly possible that the fall and resulting damage screwed something up there and that leg can't quite rid itself of fluid as well as it could before the fall.

At least, I hope that's the reason. Because any other potential options are worse. Either way, the compression boots help. They don't help with my other leg pain, or any other symptoms but swelling, but it's nice to get a deep massage and to have unswollen legs for a little while, so I'll keep using them.

- Rain woke me up twice today. Couldn't even be mad, because it meant that forgetting to water my vegetable garden was rendered moot. Both times it sounded like a huge downpour, though!

- Been feeling the urge to rewatch Lucifer before the new season comes out. Sometimes I forgot just how much I enjoyed that show. Then something draws my attention to it and I'm all, "Oh hell yes, gimme gimme!" Kind of makes me miss my fandom days, though, because I'd probably be reading and writing all the fanfic for this show!