So, my last post was just after D's 7/25 surgery to put in a new port. Well, by mid August he was having problems again, and this time it turned out that it had slipped out of the vein it was suppoed to be delivering medicine to. So, off to surgery again, and this time trying a different type of vein access called a hickman. I did a quick Google on hickman and found the picture above. Obviously that's not D's hairy chest. :) But it's very similar to his hickman - except he only has one tube, not the two that this guy has.The surgery went well and his recovery was better this time than any of his previous surgeries. I'm just really hoping that we can make this one last a LONG time and he won't need another surgery... for a year???
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