Darren LeBlanc

As I mentioned a few days ago, we have had quite a bit of trouble getting an IV setup on Misty for Chemo and MRIs.  She has even had a lot of trouble getting her blood drawn at the lab each week (giving blood is easier than an IV because the needle is smaller). Our doctor wants Misty to have a fairly simple surgery tomorrow to implant a Mediport.

A Mediport is a device that is implanted under your skin below your collar bone so that medications may be delivered directly into your blood system. When the port is “accessed”, a special needle is placed through the skin into the reservoir through a plastic membrane called a septum. The raised “septum” is made from a self-sealing rubber, which allows repeated injections into the port so that you do not need to get injected directly into the skin or have an IV line inserted each time you require medication.

Anyway, we are having this done tomorrow. It will just be a day stay. This should make life easier…but Misty is not at all looking forward to it.