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Chemo question - PICCs and Ports.
Hi lovely people, I did my second dose of chemo (AC/T dense dose x 8, every two weeks) on Monday, and all is going quite well. But I was just learning to deal with the canula each fortnight (I’m...
I didn’t have either and had only one ‘usable’ arm due to lymphoedema, but consideration of how good your oncology nurses are at finding veins may be an issue unless you are pretty relaxed about unproductive punctures!
I wasn’t too fussed - the senior nurse was a ‘gun’, never missed first time, but others weren’t so good. So if your veins are accessible and you have arm choices, it may be fine. See how you go! Best wishes.
I wasn’t too fussed - the senior nurse was a ‘gun’, never missed first time, but others weren’t so good. So if your veins are accessible and you have arm choices, it may be fine. See how you go! Best wishes.