What else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hey all:

I got home from the hospital on Thursday and on Friday my arm ached

so bad I could not stand it. Home health came out pulled my PICC

line (what else is new) and they had an awful time getting it out.

Long story short i have developed a horrible case of

thrombophlebitis., i.e. a blood clot and inflammation in the vein.

I thought pancreatitis hurt but this is running a close second.

Right now it is feeling a lot better so I can type this. They did an

ultrasound the day before I came home to make sure there was no clot

because my arm hurt so bad. They wanted to leave the PICC in for a

week " just in case " as you all know the vein problems I have getting

a line. Didn't work and all this developed in two days. I spent

last night in the emergency room writhing and they found a partially

occluding clot. Not dangerous where it is. He gave me one shot in

the stomach of a blood thinner....Lovenox that I have had before to

boost this thing along. I cannot tell you how much Percocet I have

taken in the last three days. I am at my wits end because I want to

go back to ton but I WILL NOT go without some kind of venous

access and let them poke at me. When I say there is nothing good,

there is nothing good. All this poking is what is causing the

inflammation and the PICCs are now causing blood clots. I had one

in the other arm in November.

Whining is not my usual thing but I am whining and wallowing

tonight! Sorry. I have had enough of it and am ready to just give

up.

If any of you nurses out there have anything positive to say about

this let me know. O yes this was what htey call a " midline " PICC

line which only goes to the shoulder because I can't have anything

ever again that goes down into the chest cavity. Apparently the

midline things cause all kinds of problems. Oh yeah not to mention

the battle and screaming fight I had to get into with the discharge

planner, home health and the idiot nurse who gave me the wrong

information and tried to slide her but out of the room when she got

caught. Thats another story I need to tell but I can't type it all

right now. Thats for later. That is one Chrissy you need to hear

as I need some advice on how to handle that kind of stuff again.

The only thing it did for me is make me hurt, but I got my point

across and this nurse got caught.

Sorry for all the whining.

Kaye...........NC