Hi Liz, yes, I think we all know the mind games our brain likes to play - especially in the early hours. I usually find that once I had a treatment plan in place that it calmed down, hope that happens for you. As to the portacath I had one fitted just before I started this new round of IV chemo and it is soooo good! No hunt the vein, they just plug you in and away you go! The chemo nurses like them as well as they are so easy to use. I had mine done under local anaesthetic and mild sedation but some have them done under GA. Thry can used the same day but I has mine done a week or so before my chemo started. Only thing for mine is I wish it was a bit lower down as it's a bit obvious if I wear the wrong, lower neckline tops. I did ask about the smaller one that can be fitted by the surgeon who did mine said they'd had greater success with the normal sized one, also some ladies have had the smaller ones fitted near their elbow but again, the hospital where I had it done fits them to the chest. You can have bloods taken from them but a special needle has to be used so the chemo nurses usually do that rather than 'blood' nurses plus a power port can be fitted that CT dye can be injected through but, again, this wasn't offered to me. I still have one good vein that I have blood taken from in my arm and can get the CT dye in as well so I'm just using the port for chemo.
Hope you can get some sleep and some reassurance and feel a bit better.
Nicky x
Ps edited dye to typo, wrote Luz, not Liz!
