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| June 20th, 2005 | Chemo Round Four | ||
With my new catheter accessory, it is much easier to hook me up to chemo. First, the chemo nurse flushes the picc line. She uses a syringe filled with saline that screws on to one of the capped ends of the line. Then, she plunges the saline in. Finally, she pulls on the syringe to make sure my blood fills it a littly, verifying that there isn’t a clog in the line. Again, she plunges the syringe back in to my arm and unscrews it from the line. What’s disturbing is that when she pulls on the syringe and draws my blood, I can feel a ”sucking” pressure in my chest. I am so grossed out by this, I want to barf. Before I can dwell on it too much, though, the nurse hooks up my IV by simply screwing the IV line into my picc line. So easy, and so much less painful than poking me with a needle. When my chemo is done with, the IV is unscrewed from my picc line and arm is bandaged. I am free to go.
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