Transplant Clinic - First Time Post Transplant

[furrbear]

Spending time w/ David @ Transplant Clinic. They've spent the last hour trying to find a vein. Would help if they had got more of the edema off before discharging him yesterday. Even one of the more experienced phlebotomists is having trouble.

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[codecattx.livejournal.com]

I'd loan you the one you nailed my arm on Thursday for me pre-surgery checkup.

Fastest I have ever been tapped for blood, and I didn't even realize that she was doing it until she said she was done.

Because you know I can't resist this kind of an opportunity.

[allanh.livejournal.com]

So would you say their labors have been in vein?

[texaspenguin.livejournal.com]

Have they considered implanting an infusion port? Or at least leaving a dialysis catheter in?

[javabear.livejournal.com]

Would it make sense for them to put in a PIC(C?) line for a while?

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

Finally out of there at 7PM... with a PICC line. The dialysis catheter was removed after the 4th surgery produced a working shunt, it was also suspect in last years septicemia admissions.

[furrbear.livejournal.com]

See comment above. ;-)

[rockybear02.livejournal.com]

OMG - I feel so bad for him - that is horrible! An hour trying to find a vein - sounds like what my father used to go through after two open heart surgeries.

Hope tomorrow is a better day.