Hi Sue
The nurse on my 3rd of 6 treatments took 4 goes (in fact she gave up after the third and let someone else do it) to get my line in. When she lined up at my 4th treatment I politely asked if she was confident of getting it in, so she decided to get another nurse to do it and she got it first go. In her defence I probably had not drank enough that morning as it was quite a cool day and I didn't realise that plenty of fluids helps the veins plus they usually put a heat pad on the arm before putting the line in. I felt rather awful about questioning the nurse but the previous time caused too much distress and the position they ended up putting it in was quite uncomfortable for the chemo duration of 3 hours. So basically I recommend plenty of fluids on the day. Best wishes, Di
