Next steps.
Last night I had an absolute meltdown and cried uncontrollably for an hour but I have woken today with a slightly clearer head and am trying to imagine what it's going to be like in the coming months ...
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Hi @CathyMac so glad you are having a good day after yesterday
i have a port and I love it. It was put in under a local and I stayed in but I also had a ton of other tests that day so I think it was just my oncologist and his protocols and my chemo started the next day. Have only had one day where it wouldn’t work and I’m still not sure it wasn’t the nurse as it has worked perfectly every other time. Anyway they put the draino down it and it was fine. I went the port as I have extremely difficult veins. The day it didn’t work initially they took my blood test in one spot and started my chemo in another and had a few attempts ar the bloods so I was bruised to next Christmas. Much rather the port! I put the numbing stuff on before I leave home and have a couple of panadol and don’t feel a thing when they put the needle in best thing out. My port is in my arm rather than my chest because my surgeon doesn’t like them in the chest(ruins her work) and the onc follows what she says!
i have a port and I love it. It was put in under a local and I stayed in but I also had a ton of other tests that day so I think it was just my oncologist and his protocols and my chemo started the next day. Have only had one day where it wouldn’t work and I’m still not sure it wasn’t the nurse as it has worked perfectly every other time. Anyway they put the draino down it and it was fine. I went the port as I have extremely difficult veins. The day it didn’t work initially they took my blood test in one spot and started my chemo in another and had a few attempts ar the bloods so I was bruised to next Christmas. Much rather the port! I put the numbing stuff on before I leave home and have a couple of panadol and don’t feel a thing when they put the needle in best thing out. My port is in my arm rather than my chest because my surgeon doesn’t like them in the chest(ruins her work) and the onc follows what she says!