They call me Proto.

Ugh, I'm not posting this asking for advice or seeking help. I just need to vent a little and tell my little story because I kept it to myself for awhile from most of you. Not much of you know that I have kidney failure. Anyway, this year I had a procedure done that removed a fistula that was getting too big replaced with a graft in my arm. The surgery for that was done in January, so the month was spent healing the arm and what not. In Feb, I had another visit for surgery to remove the staples from my arm that was holding the skin together in my arm, and Feb was spent healing the arm from that. Well, last week, my arm developed these scalings when it should be completely healed. It bothered the heck out of me and I couldn't help but scratch and peel off the scales despite knowing I shouldn't. After having enough, I decided to visit the clinic and I was prescibed some cream to apply to treat the scales.

So far it looks to be working, but since then, the arm has swollen up and became warm to the touch. I couldn't use the arm for my dialysis treatment because of this and had to use my catheter, which I recently had replaced for the second time this year since having it back because of my arm. And now I am expected to see my surgeon for the third time this year to have another surgery done. I hope this would fix this problem, because it's starting to become one. >_<