Guest guest Posted February 8, 2003 Report Share Posted February 8, 2003 Ok... I am so scard my new ports infected. It was itching so bad last night I changed the dressing.Well, when I took the dressing off, it had all this watered down blood and yellowish liquid on the gauze and around the site.Well today it was realy pulling like it was caked in something so I looked and there was this yellow crusty stuff on my skin and on the needle.There was also yellowish stuff with watered down blood on the gauze pad again. I also thought that I was almost done with my Zosyn....well I found a whole other bag of it ( like 7 doses ). I had missed sooooooooo many doses of antibiotics...like 2 a day (I was getting 4 doses a day) b/c my veins kept blowing and they wouldn't put a central line it. the docs wouldn't believe me or my nurses when they said my veins were shot...Ughhhhhhh...so now my arms are all bruised too. So did the antibiotics do any good...?Did they put the port in and I still had infection in my blood? they put the port on the other side of my chest so at least its not the same spot.Or is it normal to have some liquid come out of the port site...the needle side? Plus I am really really bruised.... Any advice? I am calling the surgeon on Monday.... Becki YOUR FAVORITE LilGooberGirl YOUNGLUNG EMAIL SUPPORT LIST www.topica.com/lists/younglung Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease Society http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InterstitialLung_Kids/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 8, 2003 Report Share Posted February 8, 2003 Ok... I am so scard my new ports infected. It was itching so bad last night I changed the dressing.Well, when I took the dressing off, it had all this watered down blood and yellowish liquid on the gauze and around the site.Well today it was realy pulling like it was caked in something so I looked and there was this yellow crusty stuff on my skin and on the needle.There was also yellowish stuff with watered down blood on the gauze pad again. I also thought that I was almost done with my Zosyn....well I found a whole other bag of it ( like 7 doses ). I had missed sooooooooo many doses of antibiotics...like 2 a day (I was getting 4 doses a day) b/c my veins kept blowing and they wouldn't put a central line it. the docs wouldn't believe me or my nurses when they said my veins were shot...Ughhhhhhh...so now my arms are all bruised too. So did the antibiotics do any good...?Did they put the port in and I still had infection in my blood? they put the port on the other side of my chest so at least its not the same spot.Or is it normal to have some liquid come out of the port site...the needle side? Plus I am really really bruised.... Any advice? I am calling the surgeon on Monday.... Becki YOUR FAVORITE LilGooberGirl YOUNGLUNG EMAIL SUPPORT LIST www.topica.com/lists/younglung Pediatric Interstitial Lung Disease Society http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InterstitialLung_Kids/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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