Port Placement

This turned out to be a little bigger deal than I was expecting.  I arrived at SCCA at 7:30am and left there just before 1:00pm.  I was planning on getting my port in then heading to work. Well, no, it didn't happen that way. It took much longer than I was expecting and it has been pretty uncomfortable. We got home this afternoon and I slept until "it" woke me up to remind me to take another pain pill. The port is placed under my skin, so eventually you wont see anything. Since I start chemo on Friday they left the needle in mine so it is ready to be accessed .  Once I am done with my chemo on Friday they will remove all the "stuff" that is hanging off of it and I wont feel like I have a huge growth hanging from my chest anymore. Then each time I have chemo they will find the port and plug into it administer the drugs then remove the needle.
When we arrived today Dan quickly found one of the few lounge chairs to kick back in :)

                                                 Me with nurse tina

                                                  The port

The purple part is the port and that is under my skin. The other part is the part that was left connected for Friday.

We meet with Dr. Kaplan tomorrow. Looking forward to that.