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Date Posted: 08:44:13 03/15/07 Thu
Author: Richard
Author Host/IP: adsl-75-45-210-141.dsl.sfldmi.sbcglobal.net / 75.45.210.141
Subject: Well here's goes again... make a wish or pray for me...

In about five to six hours from now, I should have a new medi port. The placement time is for 1:00 p.m. I have to be there at 11:00 p.m. through for prep and probably just for them to know that I am there for the procedure. Being all my larger better useable veins are either blocked by clots or have collapsed, it is going to take more hi-tech machines and techniques to find a vein.

I am nervous and not just the normal pre-opt anxiety but post-opt also. I do not want to get an infection, clots, spend more time in the hospital, ect. If I do spend time in the hospital, I will have to find someone else other than my son to look after my cat and retrieve anything I might need from home.

It has been confirmed by my Internist doctors, and two vascular surgeons that If I cannot get a port, my veins are terrible for getting regular peripheral IV lines. That is were service small veins are use to stick a needle in to get IV fluids. Of the last four IV infusions that I have had, I have been poked nine times to working IV lines. Even when they started using leg and feet veins, I would probably only have six months to live with slowly dehydrating to death. I surely do not plan to stick around for the later stages of dehydration. I have been badly dehydrated before. Back then, the pain, the drop of blood pressure. Have you ever stood up too fast… well it is like all the time. Miriam says she make sure I would have mega pain meds to keep me from suffering and abandoning her. But, I would die anyway. Life scares me; not death.

RICHARD

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