A flashback: cording

After the second surgery, and as a result of having some lymph glands removed from my armpit, I developed cording, which is not only painful but very annoying because it limited (a lot) my arm movement. It felt like having a very tight cord running from the axilla towards the hand, pulling my arm down, making it very stiff. The tissue was so tight it was visible to the eye, under my arm, exactly like a stretched cord. When I complained to the surgeon, he referred me to a physiotherapist who massaged my arm and stretched the cords until I regained full arm movement. It took several weeks, but I can now finally move my arm normally and without pain. I still can’t lift heavy weights and I have to be careful not to get infections in this arm, but the improvement is so big I feel like new.