09:30
I am battling with my current socket.
When I put it on first thing in the morning, it is great. But soon the stump goes farther and farther into the socket, and puts more force on the stump end. Inflating the bladders helps, but I feel I need many more bladders. Especially up high in the back of the stump. This is where I need to add stump socks a few times a day. Yesterday I had on 4 socks by the end of the day. That means 4 times during the day I have to take off pants, take off leg, add sock, then put leg back on and then get dressed again.
Around the house I only wear my underwear. It makes life a lot easier.
I wanted to find a more permanent solution to the problem of the silicone liner pulling my pubic hairs as I walk. I tried shaving, and that sort of works, but stubble is worse than hair, so I have to shave every day.
Yesterday I went shopping at the Pharmacy.
I went straight to the "wrist brace" department, and tried on different braces to make my cane walking easier. I wore it from then on, and bought the empty box.
I stopped a white lady in her 50s and asked her about removing pubic hairs. She advised hair removal creams, because the new hair that grows, is not a stubble, but new hairs. I bought some.
Then I got my prescription drugs from my one legged buddy pharmacist. We chatted a bit.
When I got home I wanted to test the hair removal cream.
The box says to first test the cream on the inside of my elbow to see if there is any allergic reaction. The box also says to...
"Leave the cream on from between 3, and 10 minutes. Don't guess at the time, use a watch to make the time accurate."
So, I used a watch to make sure I was precisely accurate between 3 and 10 minutes. :-)
There was no rash or pain, so I smeared some on my crotch hairs, and 5 minutes later wiped the brown, sticky, goo off. It seemed to work, and this morning I did not put on a pair of cut up pantyhose before the liner. I'll have to wait and see if it is a good thing or not.
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Oct 26 - 03:40
I went to bed at 23:00, and woke up at 03:00. My stump itches, and I have a burning pain below where my left knee should be.
I don't know where this PLP came from, and the itching isn't from where I did the hair removal.
Yesterday was an easy day. I drove to the mall where I had lunch with a friend. We then did a short walk to a knife store and a book store. Then back home.
Sometimes if there is a bit of glycerin or cream inside the silicone liner, there will form blisters. Where the skin and the silicone are stuck to each other, and where the skin slides next to the silicone will form blisters from the stretching of the skin between the two areas. I think that is what happened. There was no sign of discomfort as I walked today, but now there are blisters about half way up my stump on the outside of the stump. Why is nothing ever easy?
My buddy has high speed internet, and downloads financial news videos for me. I have a few Kaiser reports I can watch till I feel sleepy, or the pain quits. I did some drugs again. I thought the drug use was over. Not so.
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