The dreaded Hickman Line procedure under local is over and I now have a couple of new appendiges sticking out of my chest. Everything went well yesterday and even though I had to wait until late in the day for a bed it wasn't that bad.
All in all I got myself into a bit of a nervous state and could feel myself tensing up throughout the procedure but in truth the staff were brilliant and apart from the initial anaesthetic it was more discomfort than pain. Twenty minutes is all it took.
The first flush through of the lines today was the next nervy moment for me as I didn't know whether to expect some sort of sensation as the saline went in. Much to my relief I never felt a thing so I reckon with a bit of luck and good management I can handle this over the next six months or however long it ends up being. Time will tell!
After all that the first chemo was in tablet form... but I can handle pills!
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