{"id":202,"date":"2018-12-20T12:35:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-20T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/?p=202"},"modified":"2018-12-22T11:41:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T17:41:57","slug":"day-232-port-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/2018\/12\/20\/day-232-port-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 232: Port Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back at HSC CancerCare Clinic#1 today to have the port<\/a> removed. The procedure is quick and we’re only there for 45 minutes from check-in to leaving the building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

After a brief wait at the reception area I’m called into the procedure room. Pat, the nurse looking after things gives me the rundown on what will be happening and I sign the consent forms and change into a gown, top only. A brief wait while they are finishing with the guy ahead of me and them I’m on the table and the procedure is under way. After a bit of poking and prodding at the port they declare that it has moved about 90\u00ba from when it was inserted and that the will need to make a new incision for the removal instead of going in on the original incision. OK, that brings the total number of scars for this whole episode to four.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After two injections of some good drugs I can’t feel anything in the area of the port but I’m wide awake and will remember everything. After a fair bit of reefing, tugging and I guess some cutting it’s out and stitches are in with a dressing on top. There was no overhead mirror (just as well) so I didn’t see the work being done or what the incision will look like so all I get to see so far is the final product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dressing on top after the port removal<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Dressing off<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

p.s. Hair is coming back, everywhere on my body. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back at HSC CancerCare Clinic#1 today to have the port removed. The procedure is quick and we’re only there for 45 minutes from check-in to leaving the building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,16,4,17],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-cancercare","tag-hsc","tag-port","tag-surgery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigdadoo.com\/journey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}