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Should I get a port?

Gynecologic Cancers | Last Active: Apr 17 2:18am | Replies (87)

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Sometimes, we learn the hard way because we don’t know what we don’t know until we are into it.
I had a meltdown at both insertion and removal and felt unnecessarily judged both times.
Thankfully, there were kind nurses who tried to support me but the PAs and techs just wanted to get on with it. Looking back, these were the only times I ever fell apart from diagnosis day until now. 😞

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My port insertion was done with day surgery and I was totally knocked out. In and out of day surgery in about 4 hours. I told them I was afraid and they opened my IV with meds before I got to the operating room. Knocked out on the way there!
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