OK, this is weird. Or at least it seems weird to me.

A few months ago, the sugical scar that runs from neck to knees (I exaggerate wildly!) started getting itchy. Mr Google, who knows everything, told me that other people had itchy surgical scars, too. But I asked the medical oncologist anyway. She dismissed it as nothing important. (What’s important to them and what’s important to me differ widely; I must write about that one day.)

The skin around the scar started getting itchy, too. The itchy area spread, almost from hip to hip

The skin is now red and blotchy. The skin seems fragile, thin, almost delicate. While it’s itchy, it seems so fragile that I dare not scratch. (I also desperately want to avoid a female version of men who scratch at their balls in public: never a good look!)

Since I can’t inject the wretched Clexane into either leg, for both now have oedema, I must inject into my abdomen. Into that thin, fragile, itchy, blotchy skin.

So yesterday I asked the medical oncologist about choosing injection sites. And, about what might be causing the thin, blotchy skin.

She said it looked like an allergic rash (well, yes, I knew that).

What seemed weird to me is that she said it’s probably caused by what is going on inside my abdomen, not outside.

So tumours inside the body are causing skin reactions on the outside. Who would have thought?