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PORT PLACEMENT - Detailed description of process

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  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,289
    edited July 2013

    No judging at all. This is your life, your circumstances and your decision. If you feel your practitioners are highly qualified and you are comfortable with them, then you can indulge your SO's hang up. Wishing you the best.

  • Mellie289
    Mellie289 Member Posts: 27
    edited July 2013

    I have confidence in the female doctors I've found sound far... except my PCP, whom I planning on ditching next time I need to see a general physician. Port dilemma is solved for now - I will try IV for the first treatment and see how it goes if I can do without it. I have been told many times how I have good veins!

  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited July 2013

    Mellie if you happy that is the main thing.  Really you're going through a lot and whatever you need to do to weather this storm, do it.  I'm so happy that he is going to help you take care of things, I'm sure any and all help will be appreciated.  You need to lean on people right now..the ones who love you will stick around and the ones who run away were never dependable in the first place.  After becoming Stage IV I've come to know who really loves me and who don't.  That's the one benefit of this disease...you learn who to keep in your heart and who to delete.
    I hope all goes well for you and the IVs are easy.  Some people never get a port and it works out well.  Others do well with an arm port.  Do what is best for you.

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited July 2013

    bump

  • Maziel58
    Maziel58 Member Posts: 4
    edited July 2013

    Awww, CRAP.  I want to be OUT!

    When I had "THE SHOT" of radioisotope my surgeon gave me to show up the lymph nodes the day of surgery, It hurt so bad I lost my breath.  He told me it was going to hurt.  He stuck me twice into the mass.  It was terribly painful - fine needle, tiny bit of juice in a tuberculin syringe.  Told me to massage to spread it - so I did.
    Nuclear meds guy comes down, takes me to the room and nothing showed up but the bright spot.  The lady next to me also having BC surgery was the same - a wasted shot and a painful shot. They ordered more for both of us.  This time head of radiology comes in - my surgeon was  operating - and says I've done this 1000 times.  JAB! Walks away.  It made the bleb, and when I could breathe again with tears in my eyes, started massaging.  I could feel the flush across my breast and under my arm.  Called the nuke guy who comes and takes me to the room and NOTHING.  Just the bright spot that didn't spread to the lymph nodes.  My doctor comes down and waves a printout of nothing, I guess, and says I presented an interesting problem.  I was afraid it would be put off.  So he used the blue dye method. 

    I have been looking forward to drain out, port in, but now I'm not sure.  I'm too old for this.  If they're going to hurt me - I want to be out.

  • Maziel58
    Maziel58 Member Posts: 4
    edited July 2013

    About the colonoscopy thing...Believe me.  He's seen all the assholes in town!  No faces, just assholes.

    PIECACAKE!

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited August 2013

    Bump

  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited August 2013

    Bump...sorry for the delay in bumping...computer internet connection issues have been resolved.

  • tamidavis61
    tamidavis61 Member Posts: 1
    edited August 2013

    I'm having this procedure done In Two Weeks. You're Info Was Very Helpful

  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited August 2013

    To all, we all have discussed chemo/ anethesia brain. We now can call it anesthesia/chemo/drug brain. This article is in AARP magazine. It discusses the drug classifications that can cause memory loss. It describes why each drug class can cause memory loss. It gives specific names of drugs. It gives alternative drugs that can be substituted. I would suggest reviewing it with your prescribing doc if you have concerns regarding any of your meds. I also suggest you put it in your favorite places on your computer. Also, printing it off for future referrence if you have a printer. Please, pass this on to other BCO friends, friends etc. ;) sassy

    www.aarp.org/health/brain-heal...

    Haven't been here much in alongggggg time, but this artcle is a MUST SHARE type with those I care aboutWink

  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited August 2013

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  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited August 2013

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  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
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  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited September 2013

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  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited September 2013

    bump again

  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited September 2013

    bumpity bump

  • Jaybird26
    Jaybird26 Member Posts: 5
    edited September 2013

    Teena,

    Thank you so much. I needed to see this post. My port will be placed in about a week.

  • exbrnxgrl
    exbrnxgrl Member Posts: 5,289
    edited September 2013

    Jaybird,

    Teena hasn't signed on to bco in two years, but we do appreciate her op. if you have any more questions or concerns about port placement you can contact me or anyone who has posted more recently on this thread. Wishing you the best.

    Caryn

  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited September 2013

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  • veggy
    veggy Member Posts: 4,150
    edited September 2013

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  • aaoaao
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  • sas-schatzi
    sas-schatzi Member Posts: 15,894
    edited October 2013
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  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited October 2013


    bump, bump, and bump.

  • aaoaao
    aaoaao Member Posts: 245
    edited October 2013


    Ditto bump

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    edited November 2013
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