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Recently diagnozed with Breast Cancer
Today I saw the oncologist and I am booked to start chemotherpay early April. The Staff I met who deal wiht Breast Cancer Patients on a daily bases, are really awesome which helped me accept my unexp...
You will be glad of that port a cath. My final chemo they tried in 6 places in my arm, rotating and turning and reinserting various depths and directions. They even tried it with an ultrasound. A week later I still have dirty bruises up my arm. Its not so much the veins shrink with chemo its that they somehow get slippery to insert a needle into and just keep on moving out of the way. Gets frustrating.