Tuesday, March 13, 2012

No-one said anything about a bumbag

I started chemo yesterday. We arrived at the Mater at 8.30am and I walked out eight hours later with a new PICC.

What's that, you ask?
Well! It's a Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter, a kind of teeny, bendy straw that they inserted into a vein in my left arm (don't ask how; I had my eyes closed).
This is attached to a tube, which is attached to a pump about the size of an early Walkman, which is housed in – a bumbag:


This is stuck to me for the foreseeable future.
If only I'd known...

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