Some of you may not know what the port is, so here a (very) brief explanation.
"A chemo port is a thin, soft, plastic tube surgically implanted into a vein in your chest or arm. It allows healthcare professionals to draw blood and deliver chemotherapy drugs directly into a vein without having to insert an IV needle each time. The chemo port produces a small bump under your skin".
The procedure of putting the port in is supposed to be quite short, 30 minutes, with only a local anaesthetic. The surgen opens the skin on your shoulder, sews the port to your breast muscle (in my case on the left side) and enters the tube into the vein, which is right there...
This is if the vein is there. In my case the procedure took 3 hours, 3 hours that I was quite awake, hearing the cuts and feeling the pulling and pushing. After 2.5 hours the head Doctor had to come to find my............I was told that I don't have enough fat on me, which makes finding the vein quite difficult.
I now have a port in my cephalica through venae sectio-in case somebody wanted to know the medical term!
Well, after 3 hours I was ready to go. Now everything went well, but don't be mistaken for one second to think that I was feeling well. The port is a foreign object in your body, and my body started revolting...it felt as though I had a belt strapped around my chest and somebody was pulling as hard as they can.
In the end however, all worked out.
Now I am all ready to get my Chemo....
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