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Hello and welcome to a new edition of the digression. I am Sascha Markmann and
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From time to time I will deviate from the real issue. Yeah, episode 60, who would have thought?
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That's fine, isn't it? Today's topic is compression bandages. Many or some people,
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Those who listen to me know that I have been studying computer science for a long time,
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I worked as a nurse and so I had my experience.
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Yes, I myself am affected by compression bandages. After my stroke,
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The one I had in 2016, until then I was a strong young man, but I was healthy. me
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He had no health problems.
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Well, family-related high blood pressure,
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But that's with us in the family.
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On the maternal side, everyone, even the people who
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sporty and slim, they all have
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mild to moderate high blood pressure,
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It is worthy of treatment. Yes, what's the point
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I say that until then it was okay. Then I'm about to
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My 40th. Birthday psoriasis and then my family doctor told me,
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After I went to the dermatologist, we had to change the medication.
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So I have now mid-March I have birthday, until this was all settled, we had beginning
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April and then I had a weekend and there we have the one drug
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Go ahead and start the other one. I have the last Friday.
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Taken dose, I should skip Saturday and start on Sunday with the new ones. And on
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I had a stroke on Saturday. A serious stroke that was truly life-changing.
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I spent three months in neurology, then did a pre-rehab, then a
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Normal rehab and I haven't been home for over half a year. So you can imagine,
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It was really a serious stroke. And since then, I have also had word-finding problems.
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Let me be excused. My speech isn't quite as clean as it used to be.
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That's why. I had to relearn everything. Really everything. From sitting, how to go to the toilet, how
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How to talk, how to swallow, how to eat, everything.
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Yes, and during the D and in the period I got water storage in the
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Leg, a so-called lymphedema.
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Well, I knew that, you can treat that with pitta associations.
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is not beautiful and then with round knitted compression stockings is now
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Not sexy, but that's all possible. Yeah, but it didn't get any better and then someday
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I had then been to the dermatologist and the good woman was also an expert on the lymphatic system and the
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Said to me, your compression isn't enough. There must be harder guns,
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There must be flat-knitted stockings on it and if you are unlucky, even to the stomach. So speak,
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Tights, just like women who have a bad idea. Yes, there was of course
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Enthusiasm is great. Then I'm off to Bochum, where there are experts in the area,
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And there it was found, even elephantitis, so grade 3.
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Compression there. For more than half a year I have only had these compression bandages.
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It's the two-tiered one we'll talk about later. And then stop flat
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knitted compressor stockings. Everything worked out great until the hot days,
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Which we had this year.
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Come closer, ladies and gentlemen, experience the future of compression.
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Leugo K2, I feel the pressure, pain in the leg, what luck.
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Away from the end of death solid and strong Catching a life
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Bam Bam Bam Yes, suffering has never been so easy
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Oh occult object for all the pain are now in every clinic for free, cool included
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Because I got so much water in my legs, that's what I did with the flat knitted
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Compression stockings just don't work anymore.
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And then I made an appointment.
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In the meantime, the second wave came with the hot days.
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And it got so bad that I now have these compression bandages again.
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And this time it's really a real agony, because I'm in such pain, I already have that
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I haven't had it in a long time. Because you can't wrap it all up,
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By the way, this is not the case with the compression stockings, are the toes and a piece
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The forefoot is no longer affected. I want almost everything in the forefoot. I will
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Never become a foot model again because the forefoot is so deformed by now.
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And so it is. The problem is not so, these bandages, they consist of two layers. Once
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a white, softer padding, which must also be applied to a certain degree of compression,
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And a second layer, which is also self-adhesive, so that it does not slip.
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And the white also stabilized again a bit.
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You have to put it all in such a way that it throws as little wrinkles as possible.
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By the way, you have to do the same with the pythagoraphics.
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If you turn and wear the things for a long time and the compression is good, then
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Then, after a while, they begin to slip.
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That's why they have to be remade every day.
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That means unwinding and new ones.
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Now you're going to say, okay, then you're going to take new ones.
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The pustekuchen, a set for one leg, costs around 60 euros.
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The health insurance companies do not take part in the fact that you write down 7 times 120 euros. Then there is
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It's like, "Well, you can wash them, at least that's the white one.
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The soft part. The other part you can not wash, because then the adhesive effect is
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Not there anymore. All good and nice. So you wear it for a while and change and wash
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It changes and washes them, but at some point this effect is gone. So after
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One week you really need new ones. Then I said yes, the outer layer is
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sticky. The first time I had cats. I later had my cats, more or less
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The fur around me had glued to the legs. This time I don't have cats.
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Because they all died in the meantime. And then I put those things in the
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House dust, sometimes a feather from the bedding, so my partner has feathers in pillows
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Or something in it, a lint or something, that's all. Of course, you can also have such a
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Type of white fishnet stockings pull and not like wedding stockings, so sexy lingerie that is special
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This is for such associations.
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So that it doesn't stick that way,
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I do it because someday it will be
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It's annoying because you're constantly
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Stick things to it. But what I
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I really wanted to go out now, with me.
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The care also comes over. She's coming
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several times a week to shower, to
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supply,
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Doing other things, including now
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These associations too. And I know for myself
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From my experience as a nurse,
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Not necessarily in all
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super can be great. And I've stopped
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It's unfortunate that of the three people who
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Come here, two of them.
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They can make bandages and one can't.
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And just this one is not so, is just my main and my caregiver.
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So it comes the most. And then there are wrinkles in there and that hurts. And it hurts like shit.
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Now that's the case, my partner has also worked in nursing, in addition to her job
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As a firefighter, you can do that. So after one or two hours, when I realize,
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Oh oh, there's something hurting there now, that's going to be uncomfortable, I can then say, know what,
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We can remake the bandage. So unwind, then unwind the whole thing again nicely, so that you
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You can put it back on. There's a bit of his time going by. And you have to say,
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that this is above all the white layer, because it is so thick and also a padded
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To have function, is also really a proper buzzer. The thing is, if that
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so wound up, so twelve centimeters in diameter. Yes, and you have to do that first.
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can act. And if you don't have that kind of experience, you don't have that kind of thing.
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The hand when you're wrapped like that. Because it's not like a normal bandage. There are so
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Ovals on it, on the white and on the sticky part, the brown. And if you take them now
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A little bit pulls, then the circles and then that's the right pressure. So you have to go to the
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Unwinding has always been a bit of pulling, so that the pressure is built up. When
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then pulls a little further, then the circles become ovals again and then there is too much
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Compression. So you have a certain leeway in which you always have to pull.
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And if this is just at the beginning and I can say one thing from experience, the transition from the foot
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Over the heel to the lower leg is really tricky. You have to have a little practice,
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to do well without wrinkles.
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And that's where most mistakes happen.
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That's the thing, this big roll stays out of hand
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or it happens that you just put wrinkles in it.
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Yeah, and that's what I'm living with right now.
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And it makes me really annoyed.
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Above all, if you then realize that the first two hours is nothing, then at some point it tweaks a bit, then it's good again.
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You wake up at night because it hurts so much.
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And I'm not someone who's squeamish or anything.
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If someone knows the story of this abscess or something, then they know that there is something to endure in pain.
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But if you really have such a stabbing pressure pain, that can really happen if that's a
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It is a long time, very disturbing. And then I don't get to sleep at night. Yes, that's really
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corrosive. And you don't always want to call the nursing service right away so that someone can dance,
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Because you know for yourself that people actually have something better to do than to do such a loaf of shit.
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Yes, I can be happy that my partner can do this, but she is not always there.
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I mean, she still has a life around me. work,
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The tasks and accomplishments she wants to do, yes, that's not always the case. And I
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Do I always think so, should I bother people with it? So you just hear, or I think,
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You can also feel that you do not necessarily go to the people on the biscuit.
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Will with such small things. But there are such serious cuts in life where you think
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At the end of my 40's, I would have been somewhere else. I just have mine
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The future in my 20s is different from how I actually live it today. And 2016 was over
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Incision and that led me to think about my life. But I can also
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Don't always go and say I'm stuck back now, I'm stuck now and how do I say that
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Then what? Don't insist on my right. I know it's annoying to put bandages back down,
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Just because it doesn't feel good. But at the latest in two or three hours and if
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The shit sits, then the anyway has to be re-wrapped. And the more often you put on such a bandage and
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The harder it gets, the worse it gets. For example, in the case of the Pütterverbände, this is the case,
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They're great when you unpack them. The second time, especially when she washes
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and maybe even over 50 degrees they are still so lala and the third time you can
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I forgot, because there's nothing left with stretch. They no longer have compression and so similar
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This is also the case with these associations. The more often they are made, the less sense it makes.
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These are the little things I'm dealing with right now, and I think so.
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It's at a very high level, but it's something that's so incisive.
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It is for my quality of life. At the moment, I really want to tell you about my
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Health is full of wog,
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I thought I'd tell you again
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such a small area as
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Now it looks to me that I am
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with the Uruguay 2 Associations
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Blow around. I thank you for your
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Attention and I would be pleased
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Goodbye, Sasha.
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In this episode, I talk about a topic that is often underestimated, but is part of everyday life for many people affected: Compression bandages. I tell about my own experiences after my 2016 stroke, how I live with water retention and lymphedema – and the challenges of compression stockings and multilayer dressings.
It is about pain, practical problems when investing, costs, everyday limitations – but also about trying to regain quality of life. Personal, honest and sometimes inconvenient – just as ‘deviation’ is.
👉 If you have any experience with compression or care, feel free to send me your feedback.
Overview of topics
- introduction
– Welcome and introduction to the topic
– Personal review of my health situation - The stroke of 2016
– The day when everything changed
– Rehab, new beginnings and lifelong consequences - Water retention & lymphedema
– First experience with compression
– From round-knitted to flat-knitted stockings
– Diagnosis: Elephantiasis (Grade 3) - Compression dressings in everyday life
– Organisation of associations (two-tier system)
– Placing, wrinkles and pain
– Costs, health insurance and material problems
– Small anecdotes: Cat hair, dust & fishnet stockings - Nursing service & own initiative
– Different experiences with nurses
– If the bandage is wrong
– Support from the partner - Challenges in everyday life
– Nocturnal pain and sleep problems
– Permanent re-establishment of associations
– Quality of life and limits - reflection
– Personal handling of restrictions
– Reflecting on life after stroke
– Why small details mean big cuts - completion
– Thanks to the listeners
– Call for feedback and subscription
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Author: Sascha Markmann
Sascha Markmann is a creative mind with a moving biography – and a person who has rediscovered life after a stroke. After working as a paramedic and elderly caregiver, Sascha found his way into creative expression. As a blogger, podcaster, musician and visual storyteller, he brings together things that just don't fit at first glance: He combines his keen enthusiasm for technology – from self-hosted servers to electronic music production – with emotional depth and an oblique sense of humor. His contributions are somewhere between borderline, acid basslines and assistance – honestly, directly and with a wink. Guiding principle: “Audio-visual dullness with no usefulness – but perhaps that's why it's so valuable.” View all posts by Sascha Markmann
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