@albion223 thank you for your feedback. My conclusion based a on questions I had, is that my doctors have little to very limited knowledge of lymphedema and lack formal education on this. That is why I was told nothing ahead of time. Listening to the video of the informed doctor from Stanford, he says that in ALL medical school doctors get maybe less than an hour on lymphonic system. Self education is all there is
Along with a certificate therapist chosen from the criteria I posted.