My home health nurse came and reaccessed my port. We went in the exact same spot as last time and it went in very smoothly. It is slightly painful initially, just like when you get poked with a needle for an IV but twice that. It has to poke through the skin and then through the port so it is almost like getting poked twice. After that there is no pain at all for the week that the needle is left in. I did deaccess myself last night. I had scratched open my incision from the surgery and it had started to bleed under the bandage so I just took the bandage off and deacessed it. It was super easy to do!
I have an echocardiogram (pictures of my heart) scheduled for 1:15 on Thursday. This is the time my general surgeon appointment was supposed to be, but there are no other times that I could do the echocardiagram and that has to be done before I leave for NY. I switched my appointment with my general surgeon to 2:30 on the same day, but that means I will probably be late for work again on Thursday :( Oh well that has to be done before we leave for NY as well, so what can you do? I will update after those appointments.
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