oh look! a journal about cancer related crap! for the journal started as a cancer diary!
so last night, while being tortured by my insomnia, i started to have vague chestpain on the right side of my chest. i looked at it, and poked at it, and realized that it was at the exact site of my port. (for anyone unfamiliar with what this is, it is a small implant under my skin that is connected directly to a vein, for easy vein access) pain there is very odd. over the three years that i've had the thing, i've occasionally had random pain, but it always went away rather quickly. so i didn't think much of it until i woke up after less than 2 hours of sleep and the damn thing still hurt this morning.
so i went to my doctor's office and my nurse checked it out. the site isn't discolored or swollen. it just aches. kind of like a painful bruise. she flushed it out. but i still have to keep a close eye on it, because there is the possibility that it is a blood clot, which is always a possibilty when you have a metal implant in your body. she didn't think it was, but she was pretty puzzled.
actually, the nurse did have a bit of trouble with it. it slipped when she tried to access it and she missed. so she had to stick me a second time. is it possible that it shifted out of place somehow, and i'm bruised where i can't see? it should be back in alignment after she accessed it successfully. i just don't know. the surgeon who placed it has since retired, but i could call one of his partners i suppose. if it is still bothering me in a couple days i will.
the worst part is that it's totally freaking me out. my blood pressure was very high for me when they checked it at the office. and i got all nauseated and freaked out and lightheaded as the nurse puzzled what was going on, cause i was scared.
maybe i was just fighting ninjas in my sleep again. i mean, the ninjas have thrown my knee out before. maybe this time one of them gave me a good whack to the chest? the evil ninjas must be defeated once and for all. i am a pretty violent sleeper. i thought that i could take them on all by myself, but apparently not. i must improve my sleeping kung fu technigue. damn ninjas.
so i went to my doctor's office and my nurse checked it out. the site isn't discolored or swollen. it just aches. kind of like a painful bruise. she flushed it out. but i still have to keep a close eye on it, because there is the possibility that it is a blood clot, which is always a possibilty when you have a metal implant in your body. she didn't think it was, but she was pretty puzzled.
actually, the nurse did have a bit of trouble with it. it slipped when she tried to access it and she missed. so she had to stick me a second time. is it possible that it shifted out of place somehow, and i'm bruised where i can't see? it should be back in alignment after she accessed it successfully. i just don't know. the surgeon who placed it has since retired, but i could call one of his partners i suppose. if it is still bothering me in a couple days i will.
the worst part is that it's totally freaking me out. my blood pressure was very high for me when they checked it at the office. and i got all nauseated and freaked out and lightheaded as the nurse puzzled what was going on, cause i was scared.
maybe i was just fighting ninjas in my sleep again. i mean, the ninjas have thrown my knee out before. maybe this time one of them gave me a good whack to the chest? the evil ninjas must be defeated once and for all. i am a pretty violent sleeper. i thought that i could take them on all by myself, but apparently not. i must improve my sleeping kung fu technigue. damn ninjas.