Interventional radiology called me to set up an appt for the catheter to be placed in my chest above my breast area.
They said I need a large bore needle to take blood out and put albumin in.
If my veins are good,it could be placed in my arm, but I’m a hard stick as I learned when I was getting g IVIG infusions.
I’m not a fan of that line being placed in my chest, can’t swim or get it wet either .
I’m so afraid of it getting infected.

The hospitals dept of interventional radiology called to schedule the insertion and it was explained to me.
The needles to extract the blood and to replace with albumin needs to have a large lumen, and I am a hard stick, so it needs to be done in my chest.
I’m not keen on having this type of line inserted due to infection chance at site of catheter.
Last Nov I was septic and almost died when I had a small tear in my small intestine and I don’t want to chance getting an infection again.

I had a central line in my chest for a few months also for plasmapheresis before getting ports specifically for that. The chest central line was called something I can’t remember but two lines with little caps were outside my chest and it really wasn’t bad. It was limited due to not getting it wet and had to be vigilant about infection. After this all worked so well for me they removed that and placed two implanted Bard power ports in my chest on the other side and they have been great.