First Week of Treatment

Unfortunately i've been too busy to update earlier. Lynnelle has her first treatment a week ago today. She infuses antibiotics twice a day on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, 3 weeks on, 1 week off. On the off days she does lactated ringers for detox.

 Last monday we went to Outpatient at the hospital to have her dressing and needle changed. It was a very bad and traumatic experience. The nurse didn't know what she was doing, and so things were stressful. Not to mention it was very painful for Nellie since the port had only been in 7 days.  They'd tried to draw blood from it, and it wasn't working. A blood clot formed in her line due to the design of her line, so Thursday we went back to Outpatient to get the needle and dressing rechanged. We didn't want the clot moving and decided to play it safe rather than sorry. 


We were really glad we got the whole thing changed when the nurse pulled blood clots out of her port when she was flushing the new line. There was just some big problems with Mondays dressing.


Needless to say, we are very grateful that we have Home Health set up to come out to the house and do dressing and needle changes. At least we don't have to go some place to get it done.  


Now for some pictures...

Here is the port unaccessed. Not much to see since it's all below the skin, but the port is the lower, bigger bump.

 Here it is accessed. Not much to see from this angle either. The blue end is what she screws her lines into to drip the infusions.

Lila Sue got the privilage of going to D.C. with her mama and papa when they went for Aunt Nell's dr. visit. :) she liked rides in the wheel chair!

This was the first treatment at home..

this is what happens when you still have some fluids left to drip when you hurry out the door for an appointment. :)

Here is the blood clot in her line. She said it would move a bit when she would flush the line.

And this is how we shop! I figured out a way to prop the basket on the back of her chair. I was pretty pleased with myself. i can't easily hold a heavy-ish basket and push a chair, and its big for her to hold on her lap. Extra props for putting it here and her not even knowing it until the stuff she kept handing me was 'going into oblivian' ;) yay!