On Tuesday I had my central line put in. The clinic was running behind as they were dealing with an emergency case that had just come in, so we were delayed 4.5 hours. It was frustrating, but also comforting to know that if I had an emergency, they would drop everything to help me too.
The procedure is not complicated and is performed by a radiologist. He checks with ultrasound to find a good spot on your jugular vein in your neck and then freezes you up across your collar bone. The line goes into the jugular and is threaded down into your heart and then the other end is tunnelled under your skin across your collarbone and out by your shoulder. Two tubes come out of it and they used them to take blood and to administer medications yesterday. They will use them to filter my blood during harvest of stem cells on May 5th.
It was pretty sore once the freezing came out, but it is much better now. I keep making it bleed at the exit site because I am doing too much...but I am stubborn and insisted on doing laundry on Thursday! If I feel I can I will do it! Don't worry, my mom is coming later this morning and she will lay down the law!
Gotta go...gotta drink my cat pee now. (See previous blog post for details.)
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