CHEST PORT PLACEMENT

On March 11, 2015 I went into the hospital to have my chest port placed.  It was so much simpler than I believed it would be.  If I had known how easy it was I would have done it back at the beginning.  I blame it on lack of information.  The surgeons made it sound like “Hey if you want it, get it, if not, don’t worry about it.”  Not to blame them, but I wasn’t very well informed!

It was my chemotherapy nurse who encouraged and convinced me to get the port and explained how simple it was.  I was under the impression that having a chest port meant I’d have tubes sticking out through my skin and that I’d have to do my own insertions and flushings and I’d have to worry about clots.  But the port is completely under the skin and I don’t have to do a thing!

I asked the surgeon, Dr. Salinger, if he wouldn't mind taking a few photos for me!

So here's what it looked like when I got home from the hospital:

And here's what it looks like three months later, (June 12, 2015).  You can barely see three little bumps below the scar: