I survived the port placement! At 6:45am yesterday we checked into hospital for the port placement. All went well. They gave me a fantastic cocktail of drugs to make me drift away and the doc placed my new titanium port (FAR more fancy then my old one of 2 years ago). The doc made two incisions, one for the port and a tiny nick to access the vein (thus the two bandages in the picture below).
Then I met with my oncologist who confirmed the unfortunate (but not surprising) fact that the fluid in my lung lining was indeed malignant. It’s also more than likely already back. I’m having shortness of breath and mild coughing again. That is totally normal, but a big ole bummer that I’m going to have to do the thorancentisis again.
Anyhoo, then I went in for my first chemo treatment of Navelbine. Besides being groggy from my drug cocktail and really sore, it was a walk in the park. They gave me a drip of anti-nausea drugs for about 20 minutes, then the Navelbine, which is actually injected into the line with a syringe. That took about 6 minutes. Then a 30 minute saline drip and I was done. It will be a relatively quick treatment compared to the last time I was on infusion chemo.
Next week I’ll go in for chemo on Wednesday and then Thursday I’ll go in for the thorancentisis. Ugh, not looking forward to having a gigantic needle shoved in my back again. But the chemo will also take care of the stupid cancer in my lung lining, so hopefully I won’t have to have the fluid removed again after next week.
So I’m home resting now. I’m wicked tired and my chest hurts like a bitch. But I’m going to take my pain pills and watch Sherlock. More updates to come, but I wanted you all to know I survived. 😉  The below picture shows me in all my tired, no make up, bandaged glory. xoxo
