Surgery to remove the port last night was successful. Val is awake this morning but “drugged to the gills” and feeling cruddy. No bleeding! Incision looks good. She is on the blood thinner Heparin. There are some risks with that, because of the cancer, but the risks must be taken Continue Reading
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today’s amusements
Challenges: Val’s port shows has been showing signs of infection. The end of the suture has been a bit puffy and red from the outset, but up to now they just encouraged her to swab it with antiseptic stuff. It’s been bugging her more this week (not to mention the Continue Reading
port is in
Just a quick note to say that Val’s port implantation surgery today went well. She’s groggy tonight and on pain meds, but she can take the dressings off in a couple days and we anticipate the port will be much less of an encumbrance than the PICC line. She’s bummed Continue Reading
port
Hello dears, They took Val’s PICC line out last week. Tomorrow she will have a port surgically implanted instead. Next week she’ll begin her second three-week cycle of Navelbine. At the end of those three weeks she’ll have a CT scan, and around then we should also get results from Continue Reading