Port Defunct
Well the decision was made today by the oncology nurses that they would no longer use my port. Their reasoning makes total sense to me. Instead of having to return after the herceptin to have it remov...
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To be quite honest, I don't know. One nurse hurts me so much when putting in a cannula that it is worth having the port just for her. The other nurses are great. As a public patient they allocate a nurse to you for the day and you are stuck with them so when I get her I know I am in for a tear filled 30+ minutes. Ten minutes for her to dig around with the cannula and twenty for the pain to subside, I only have ten minutes worth of pain with the port. My onco had me look at the pain versus the pain in the worse case scenario of each and the pain with the port was much less than the pain with the cannula when this one particular nurses administers it. Yet I had two nurses that put in a cannula without any pain at all. My Onco said this way I can choose which way I want the chemo administered so if I have a good nurse for the day and if the port is tender that day (probably from me sleeping on it) then I can choose the cannula. As I said, not sure how I feel. I am going to my local GP to see what she can do about the pain under my arm leftover from when they put it in. Thank you