It has been a couple of weeks since my surgery which removed my Port-a-cath and put in a PICC line. Outside of the initial mess that the surgery caused me, everything has gone fairly ok I guess. I was on a 24 hour drip for 2 weeks straight. Last Tuesday, I was officially taken off…Continue readingPost Surgery Treatments
After 6 weeks, the infection finally burst out of my skin and my doctors finally took it seriously. They brought me in fairly quickly, stuck a needle in the site and drew out some of the substance in order to test it to see what it was. Surprise, an infection. The next day they were…Continue readingInfection turns to Surgery
So it has been about a month and a half since my operation and I just wanted to share the status with it. It seems to have all gone over well. My shoulder area is not in pain anymore, and it seems to have healed nicely.Continue readingAn update on the surgery
I am currently writing this from the hospital where I had my surgery yesterday.Continue readingAt the Hospital
This Friday I am going into surgery in order to get a port placed. A port is essentially a catheter that is placed under the skin that allows the person to have access to a bloodline so that they can give injections easier without killing veins via shots in the arm. They often put these…Continue readingSurgery & Stay
