The nurse came today to change my dressing and draw blood. I think they are going to start coming to see me at work instead from now on. It will be easier for them and for me.

Because I’m on IV meds, I have to have kidney and liver function checked on a weekly basis. This will show them how my body is tolerating the medications. I was rather amazed at how easy it was to draw blood from my PICC. She hooks up the syringe and instead of pushing like I do with the saline, she just pulls back and out comes the blood.

So, finally, there’s a positive to the PICC, I don’t have to get stuck!!

She sends off the blood and the doctor’s office will have my results when I go in two days. As long as everything shows okay, then we just keep doing what we’re doing.

The nurse was funny when she took my blood pressure. She looked at the machine kind of weird and then asked me if I felt okay. I replied honestly and said no, I feel like crap. She said my blood pressure was really low (98/68). I laughed and said that was my normal.

Then she changed out the dressing and oh my gosh, it felt so good when she was having to do the cleaning because it was kind of like my arm was getting scratched! The itching hasn’t been too bad so far but I’m also taking antihistamines daily to try to keep it at bay too.

I’ll go back to see the doctor in two days but assuming all is okay with my blood tests, I doubt there will be much to tell.