Owie
Miracle
it's between "shit" and "syphilis" in the dictionary. :D
Sorry to bore y'all with the gory details, but I think I need to
write all this out, and this keyboard is much easier than longhand.
:D
Yesterday sucked donkey nads, *deluxe*. Had to be at the
friggin' hospital by 5:45am for my 7:00am procedure to install
the port-a-cath. We left the house just past 5:00 and got there
on time even after a stop for gasoline.
No one else was on time! I think it was 7:30 when I was finally
wheeled into the OR. Woke up in recovery at 9:00.
Miscellaneous Stuff:
First try for the IV was a bust. Got me a swell purple bruise
for the effort. I told the nurse that the needle had broken through
the other side of the vein, but she didn't believe me until this huge
lump of normal saline appeared.
One of the younger nurses in the recovery room had the most
beautiful eyes I've ever seen. They were a cool grey, with a thin,
black outer rim. Just stunning. It's a damn shame I don't have a
photo to show y'all, as they were *that* startling.
Trying to think like a guy, the rest of her face was pretty, too.
Slept most of the day and early evening. Had a chicken wing
and some potato salad for supper, then back to sleep at 10:00pm.
I just removed the huge, thick bandage covering the incisions.
One is about an inch long, just at the top of my left breast, the other
is about 1/3 of that, about an inch below the collar bone. Makes them,
oh, about 2 inches apart. Held together with butterfly strips. (Steri-
Strips for you medical peeps. LOL )
The large bump of the device is under the longer of the two
incisions, so I suppose the tube runs upwards, where the small
incision marks a sort of path for it. I'll know more when I see the
oncologist for the first time tomorrow.
Came home with some cool parts. LOL They appear to be for
the first use of the port-a-cath, mostly clear tubing and clamps,
plus a weird-looking needle thingie.
Holy shit, I can't believe how sore I am. I really didn't expect
much soreness, as the incisions are so small, but maybe the surgeon
had both hands in there while putting the device in. ;)
Well, film at 11:00, I always say.......
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>^,,^< Miracle
*Reader* *Alert*: Due to the consumption of really good pain
meds and/or cough suppressants, the author of the above may be
making absolutely NO sense because she is totally stoned. :)
[RS]Faramir_agst
says...
> Holy shit, I can't believe how sore I am. I really didn't expect
> much soreness, as the incisions are so small, but maybe the surgeon
> had both hands in there while putting the device in. ;)
Check if the surgeon didn't mismatch two jobs... you were scheduled right
before a uber breat implant. That might explain the pain in the chest. But
who care when you have a ridiculous porn star sized breasts.
In that case your tubing leakage thingy might be connected to your breast
for obvious refill purpose.
Last time I woke up in a recovery room (1993) I knocked out one nurse... it
was for a 4 wisdom teeth removal. (the 4 pointless teeth located at the
back of the jaw) After that they sent me a female lumberjack that recently
switched to nursing. Later that week my hometown team won the european
football champion's league... it was a painfull moment to cheer in front
of TV when all you can eat is thru a straw.
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Fabrice Roux aka [RS]Faramir_agst
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http://www.fabriceroux.com
Quixote
"Miracle" <Get...@yourexpense.com> wrote in message
news:12cv0ld...@news.supernews.com...
Here is what they did in a nutshell, and why it is sore. They made the
first small incision to find your left subclavian vein. They cannulated the
vein with a needle and inserted a wire, and pushed in the wire until it
showed up in the superior vena cava-right atrial junction or thereabouts.
They confirmed this with fluoroscopy. They then made the second lower
incision and undermined the subcutaneous tissues to create a small pocket
next to the chest wall. Then then tunneled the catheter from the lower
incision up to the upper incision using a "passer" which roughly just
bluntly tore through the tissues separating the 2 incisions. They measured
the catheter from that point to equal the length of wire in your subclavian,
threaded this catheter over the wire so that it followed the same path and
the tip of the catheter would end up in your SCV-right atrial junction.
They then pulled out the wire. They then sewed the end of the Port-A-Cath
device in the subcutaneous pocket to the chest wall, and closed the skin
over it, as well as closing the small incision. What this does is allow the
doctors to insert a needle through your chest tissue and into the
Port-A-Cath device and have instant IV access directly to your central blood
flow. They call this a central catheter. Take care of it and keep the site
clean as they can develop infections, which you can guess can be bad since
it goes directly to your heart.
Quixote
Randy Graham
wrote:
You do realize that knowing that and explaining it so well officially
makes you fucking awesome, don't you? That's just amazing, really.
>Quixote
RagManX
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Quixote
"Randy Graham" <rag...@gamerdemos.com> wrote in message
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Naw, it's just my job. I have typed hundreds of similar reports. Small
procedures like that are very repetitive.
Quixote
Miracle
> In article <12cv0ld...@news.supernews.com>,
> Get...@yourexpense.com says...
>> Holy shit, I can't believe how sore I am. I really didn't expect
>> much soreness, as the incisions are so small, but maybe the surgeon
>> had both hands in there while putting the device in. ;)
>
> Check if the surgeon didn't mismatch two jobs... you were scheduled
> right before a uber breat implant. That might explain the pain in the
> chest. But who care when you have a ridiculous porn star sized
> breasts.
ROFL
> In that case your tubing leakage thingy might be connected to your
> breast for obvious refill purpose.
You might want to patent that! ;)
> Last time I woke up in a recovery room (1993) I knocked out one
> nurse... it was for a 4 wisdom teeth removal. (the 4 pointless teeth
> located at the back of the jaw) After that they sent me a female
> lumberjack that recently switched to nursing. Later that week my
> hometown team won the european football champion's league... it was
> a painfull moment to cheer in front of TV when all you can eat is
> thru a straw.
I cut loose with my right fist and decked a recovery room nurse
back in 1980! Although the nurse was a male, in my case. I had just
had a C-section to deliver my third child, and the SOB walked over
to me, and with both hands, pushed down on my fresh incision.
Unlucky for him that my spinal had worn off, and I was in some
gruesome pain.
He says to me, "Don't you do that again."
I gave him my most viscious stink-eye and told him that he'd
better never touch me again or I'd put his balls where his ears were.
:D
Miracle
> Here is what they did in a nutshell, and why it is sore. They made
> the first small incision to find your left subclavian vein. They
> cannulated the vein with a needle and inserted a wire, and pushed in
> the wire until it showed up in the superior vena cava-right atrial
> junction or thereabouts. They confirmed this with fluoroscopy. They
> then made the second lower incision and undermined the subcutaneous
> tissues to create a small pocket next to the chest wall. Then then
> tunneled the catheter from the lower incision up to the upper
> incision using a "passer" which roughly just bluntly tore through the
> tissues separating the 2 incisions.
Oh. I had it in my pea brain that he'd follow a path, somehow.
Like beside a vein or something. Okay, now I know why it's sore!
> They measured the catheter from
> that point to equal the length of wire in your subclavian, threaded
> this catheter over the wire so that it followed the same path and the
> tip of the catheter would end up in your SCV-right atrial junction.
> They then pulled out the wire. They then sewed the end of the
> Port-A-Cath device in the subcutaneous pocket to the chest wall, and
> closed the skin over it, as well as closing the small incision. What
> this does is allow the doctors to insert a needle through your chest
> tissue and into the Port-A-Cath device and have instant IV access
> directly to your central blood flow. They call this a central
> catheter. Take care of it and keep the site clean as they can
> develop infections, which you can guess can be bad since it goes
> directly to your heart.
Um, yeah. Scarier still is the info sheet which was given to me
before the surgery, telling all the ways the port-a-cath can become
your enemy, rather than your friend. :(
That was one of the things I had to sign, as it's more than a tad
risky and could kill you. Oh yippee, oh jump up and down.......
Now that it's been a couple of days, I'm a lot less freaked out by it.
Since I'm so thin, I can even feel the short tube under my skin, running
between the 2 incisions. Ross was a bit startled by how much the
disc part 'sticks out'. But more startling to me was the sudden thought
I had yesterday- everyone in the OR saw one of my 2 tattoos!!!! :-O
Yep, right over my heart. Damn. OWFI. :D
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>^,,^< Miracle
ScratchMonkey
@news.supernews.com:
> One of the younger nurses in the recovery room had the most
> beautiful eyes I've ever seen. They were a cool grey, with a thin,
> black outer rim. Just stunning. It's a damn shame I don't have a
> photo to show y'all, as they were *that* startling.
> Trying to think like a guy, the rest of her face was pretty, too.
Eyes are important to me, too. Long lashes (not the Tammy Faye Gobs-o-Lash
kind) and unusual iris coloring draw my eye as much as other anatomical
features. One of the pouty babes in the Victoria's Secret commercials draws
my attention based on her eyes. (She's a bit too busty for my taste, and
the latest ad was pushing a push-up bra, which just worsens the effect.)
I managed to read through yours and Quixote's description of your
procedure, but I did squirm a bit. I don't know why, as I'm an engineer and
hobbyist and, after all, it's "just plumbing", but I just can't read about
cutting into live tissue without my stomach knotting up. I wish I knew what
I could do to get rid of that effect. It sucks because the stuff really is
fascinating.
What's weird is that it even happens when I read the chemistry-heavy
descriptions of how drugs work, binding to various receptors in various
bits of anatomy.
Miracle
> I managed to read through yours and Quixote's description of your
> procedure, but I did squirm a bit. I don't know why, as I'm an
> engineer and hobbyist and, after all, it's "just plumbing", but I
> just can't read about cutting into live tissue without my stomach
> knotting up. I wish I knew what I could do to get rid of that effect.
> It sucks because the stuff really is fascinating.
>
> What's weird is that it even happens when I read the chemistry-heavy
> descriptions of how drugs work, binding to various receptors in
> various bits of anatomy.
Well, I'm unsure what advice to give in regards to getting rid
of the squeamish reaction, but I can make reading my posts easier
to take. :)
I'll make it clear either in the subject line or the first sentence
of my post whether or not I'm going into Graphic Detail Land. That
way you (and others) can bypass the grim deets. :)
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{{{{{HUGZ!}}}}}
>^,,^< Miracle
ScratchMonkey
news:12d5g33...@news.supernews.com:
> I'll make it clear either in the subject line or the first sentence
> of my post whether or not I'm going into Graphic Detail Land. That
> way you (and others) can bypass the grim deets. :)
Not to worry. I'll still read it. My mind wants to know, even if my tummy
rebels. It'll just have to suck it up. ;)
Quixote
"ScratchMonkey" <ScratchMonk...@sewingwitch.com> wrote in message
news:Xns981534646AA...@216.196.97.136...
Anytime you think you need some graphic details for therapy purposes, I have
got stuff you never even heard of before. :^)
Quixote
Hellmark
> [RS]Faramir_agst wrote:
>> In that case your tubing leakage thingy might be connected to your
>> breast for obvious refill purpose.
>
> You might want to patent that! ;)
Actually, thats how they do some types of Saline breast implants. They
put them in, and have a remote port for adding or removing saline,
depending on if they had too much or too little when they were putting
them in. Usually is removed after a few weeks.
Miracle
And you know this *how*? o.O
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>^,,^< Miracle
Miracle
Dude, give 'em a lesson on some of the most gruesome parasites!
Like that worm that you can get from dog feces...........wowza!!!
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>^,,^< Miracle :D
Frank van Schie
Haven't you noticed the firmness of his breasts, lately?
Hellmark
I'm a geek who has grown up online, so I've seen all sorts of odd
things, especially from wikipedia binges. Especially nowadays with
wikipedia, I sometimes look up something, see something else that is
interesting, look that up, and start a vicious cycle. I've literally
looked up something, like on a movie, and ended up two days later on a
subject totally unrelated.
Hellmark
Now now, they're all natural baby!
Crab
> telling all the ways the port-a-cath can become
> your enemy, rather than your friend. :(