I was also awake when the port was inserted. The procedure went fine. I was in recovery for about an hour and then was sent home. About 6 hours later the freezing wore off very quickly and then I was in excruciating pain. I was not advised to wear an open button shirt and was in so much pain I was not able to change the T-shirt I was wearing until the morning of that first round of chemo. I could barely bend forward to brush my teeth. I mentioned this to the chemo nurse I she told me I should have been taking Tylenol as soon as I got out of the OR. Hopefully I am an exception cause as I said, the mastectomies and reconstruction was no where near as painful as the port. It took over a month for the incision to heal but I think that was cause my white blood cells plummeted after the AC. Once I got on neulasta I headed up within days.