Porto cath - yeh or ney!!!

For me, I hate my portacaff.... but... I think I am traumatised from the ordeal I went through to get it in.  At the same surgery I had a right mastectomy and the whole surgery was meant to take 2.5hrs and my surgery was 5 hours long.  They were trying to put in above my left GOOD breast but the tubing would not thread in my vein in my neck, so they ended up threading it in the right jugular vein in my neck and then went across to put it in the left of my chest as originally planned...  So like I said I was traumatised by the scars and ordeal to get the thing in.

Since it has been in, it sticks out of my chest, and everyone asks what it is... I also find it uncomfortable at times, especially to sleep as I sleep on that side.  And I hate them stabbing it when I have a chemo infusion! 

The whole port thing has increased my anxiety levels...

I have actually not found chemo to be as bad as I first thought, but I still reflect on living with this foreign body inside of me... I can't wait till the day it comes out!

It may be easier for the nurses... definitely.....no doubt about it, but I have to live with this thing, so the day I get it out I will be a happy lady.

This is just my experience.. lol