Pic line time

With the news of Immunosuppression starting we needed to do something fast for all these treatments coming up. We decided a PIC line was the way to go. Avery was getting all meds through IV up until now... we are starting with Oncology on 5-4-15..so in 3 days. She would have to be put under for placement of the line and like always that stresses us out. Avery was a champ and did fantastic and we are all set to go in 3 days! There are negative and positives with a pic line instead of a port(which at some point she will have)A pic line can't get wet, needs to have weekly dressing changes and needs to be flushed daily which we would be in charge of. Heading into summer our biggest worry was keeping it dry(no swimming etc. ) We became nurses overnight and caught on rather quickly. The dressing changes however did not go smoothly so we insisted on a nursing company to come to our house and change it weekly.

getting ready to go under

showing us where the line will be

after eating her purple popsicle

there it is! Purple means power!