So, no ultrasound yet of Jason's legs, hopefully tomorrow. This afternoon his IV infiltrated (leaked into his arm) thank god it was just saline and not chemo. They stopped that one and called the IV team, they tried 2 different times to get an IV started but alas it did not happen. The one they did get placed infiltrated as soon as they pushed liquid in. His veins are just to beaten up from the chemo, the nurses were all impressed that he had held off on a line as long as he did. So they placed a picc line. This is a port that is placed in the inside of the upper arm that follows the vein until it leads in to the superior vena cava ( biggest vein in the body). It was placed using ultrasound and made sure it was in the right place by xray. I have to attend a class tomorrow that will tell me how to take care of it once we go home. He said that they numbed it up using lidocaine and he cant really feel it all and is now kicking himself for not getting it earlier. ( they kicked me out of the room claiming they needed to keep a sterile field, somehow me sitting on the other side of the room messed this up.) Well, we are now getting chemo and instead of the early start time we had yesterday we are back to starting late......again. I think Jason is destined to never get chemo before 5pm. He still has a little pain in his back when he breathes but he went today with no oxygen. He still has breathing treatments every 6 hours to help with the pneumonia. Lets hope this is all the excitement we get this go round!!
Kim
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