Waiting for chemo!!
Hi Everyone, I am new to this network. My name is Debbie and I was diagnosed with Invasive ductal carcinoma, grade 2, HER positive amplified, oestrogen and progesterone receptor positive, tumour 23mm,...
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A small beef in the scheme of things but many nurses are no good with canulas and have to get doctors or anaesthetists to do it. My day oncology nurses were good to brilliant, which made it harder to understand why general nurses in the same hospital were not good at all. I too have a lymphoedemic arm, so roaming up and down puncturing my useable arm was not a fabulous idea. It wasn't so much painful as pointless and I ended up looking like a dot painting! I am glad you have had no infection (I had a few of those but all were ultimately caused by a seroma, not loss of white blood cells) but no, you don't need any of the attendant misery of high temperatures and being in hospital. Here's hoping it's a one off!