monthly
May 22, 2010
Today’s Photohunt theme is “monthly”.
Just to the right of that scar is my chemo port.
I have to make monthly visits to the hospital to get it flushed out.
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Hmm i know this since i have a cousin who got cancer and do the same. Happy hunting and nice take of the theme.
I am not familiar with your treatment, glad you take good care of yourself.
monthly…
Ouch — hope that procedure is not as painful as it sounds!
My step-daughter had that too. Wish you a good health. Happy weekend!
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the picture made me feel scared. i hope everything is doing with you. and i am glad you are visiting the doctor as regularly as you have to. all the best.
God bless … He will never forsake you …
I hope you are doing well. Will you have to do this for a long time even after you have completed the chemo?
This is a good photo to share. Hope you continue to stay strong and heal quickly.
Not painful at all, YTSL. The flushing out procedure only takes about five minutes.
I’m doing well, Marta, thanks. The thing is when you’re stage IV they reckon that recurrences are bound to happen again and again, so best to keep the damn thing in. I’ve got used to it being there, and can even get to the hospital and back ON MY OWN for the port flushings, which for me is huge progress given my extreme fear of hospitals. It’s still kind of weird though. I’m probably going to end up with this port for another five years … if I’m lucky!
Sorry the photo made you feel scared, bing. It’s really rather tame compared to other SCAR pics I’ve posted here.
Thanks Beth, and I agree it’s a good thing to share photos like this. It helps give cancer a face and a name and you can see what’s involved. Takes away a bit of the mystery of *what happens to people* when they get cancer. And also for any lurkers here with ports who have to go through it every month… I know I’m lucky not to have had any adverse reactions or problems with the port. So far. But it is really important to get it cleaned out monthly.
It’s a poignant take on the subject, Az. And an intense picture somehow.
Ah, thanks for the explanation. I was wondering what it’s doing there.
When they DO take it out, the scar you end up with is very small.
I just went through a big cancer scare because something showed up on the mammogram; it took a dozen different angles of mammograms etc to figure out it was just the centimeter band of scar tissue from the rough part of the catheter tube that anchored it in place. So, it was nothing.
I apologized to the doctors at the cancer agency for wasting their time and they said, “You don’t understand. We LOVE telling people they don’t have cancer.”
It did give me a few months of freakoutness before we figured it out though.
That photo was taken not long after the port was put in – these days you can barely see the scar.
That whole cancer scare was due to port scar tissue??? Wow.
Anyhow, I was very relieved to find out it was nothing too.