2nd Fill Nightmare

Jun 17, 2009

I got my second fill on June 2nd about 15 weeks out and it was a nightmare. The PA could not find my whole in my port. The first fifteen minutes of her hitting the port and re numbing me was fine then after another five minutes of trying she admits to me that she has only been doing this for six months and that she has a 90% success rate...Thanks but that was not the time to tell me that....
Finally she went to get the other PA to assist her and she was much better; no bumping my port, soft calming voice and most of all assuring me that it was fine and that some are hard. She got it after about 15 minutes of trying. She made a diagram of it because it is tilted so the next time it would not be as complicated. I went back at 2:20 and found it at 3:10...then they wanted blood work. I got my second fill on June 2nd about 15 weeks out and it was a nightmare. The PA could not find my whole in my port. The first fifteen minutes of her hitting the port and renumbing me was fine then after another five mintes of trying she admits to me that she has only been doing this for six months and that she has a 90% sucess rate...Thanks that was not the time to tell me that....
Finally she went to get the other PA to assist her and she was much better; no bumping my port, soft calming voice and most of all assuring me that it was fine and that some are hard. She got it after about 15 minutes of trying. She made a diagram of it because it is tilted so the next time it would not be as complicated. I went back at 2:20 and found it at 3:10...then they wanted blood work.

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