[AnnieBL]

I must have made my leg problems sound over dramatic. I suspect that the chronic venous insufficiency and edema that developed in my legs after the pumping efficiency of my heart deteriorated during 1999 (which resulted in my taking a fairly lucrative buyout and early retirement in 2000), and made them more prone to peripheral neuropathy. I was however still able to indulge my GID-submerging wanderlust. The ulcers developed after I badly split the skin over my shin while climbing off the roof of a train in Bolivia, with the original ulcer which formed on my shin being joined by three others on my toes, all surprisingly painful. The strong pressure socks plus horse chestnut regime have so far prevented any further ulcers and largely banished the edema, since when we have made further trips searching out surviving steam locomotives in Argentina, Burma and Java, so you may understand why I have difficulty in regarding myself as someone in ill health. The insensitivity of my finger tips due to the peripheral neuropathy is a nuisance when it comes to operating today's electronic gadgets or even ordinary typing, but a greater concern than that numbness and other paresthesia is the slight loss of motor control which increases the clumsiness of my legs and my proneness to tripping. I'd better stop since I can't see how to relate any of this to breasts!