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Chelee · 09-25-2009, 10:23 PM

lizbeth, I'm pretty sure I had a Bard port too. Since it was in my arm it was small. I liked it...other then the four inch scar that now runs across my arm. My surgeon & every doctor I ran into would ask me about it. (Battle wounds) Most doctors see it & asks me "What happened there?" It worked great thru my entire yr of chemo...not one problem...but from what I hear they are no longer placing them in the arm due to problems they ran across. (Yea...my arm is a good example of one of them!) Lucky me.

I just know the first time I had to do this they always had to call someone special for all my PET/CT's, Brain MRI's to find a vein. I've had so much damage to my veins it turned into a major production every time I needed a scan. I don't want to deal with that again. So hopefully the power port will work out ok....I hope it's not that big. I don't want some monster of a port that sticks out and drives me crazy.

Chelee

09-25-2009, 10:23 PM	#6
Chelee Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Southern, CA Posts: 2,511	Re: Ports...which is the best? lizbeth, I'm pretty sure I had a Bard port too. Since it was in my arm it was small. I liked it...other then the four inch scar that now runs across my arm. My surgeon & every doctor I ran into would ask me about it. (Battle wounds) Most doctors see it & asks me "What happened there?" It worked great thru my entire yr of chemo...not one problem...but from what I hear they are no longer placing them in the arm due to problems they ran across. (Yea...my arm is a good example of one of them!) Lucky me. I just know the first time I had to do this they always had to call someone special for all my PET/CT's, Brain MRI's to find a vein. I've had so much damage to my veins it turned into a major production every time I needed a scan. I don't want to deal with that again. So hopefully the power port will work out ok....I hope it's not that big. I don't want some monster of a port that sticks out and drives me crazy. Chelee __________________ DX: 12-20-05 - Stage IIIA, Her2/Neu, 3+++,Er & Pr weakly positive, 5 of 16 pos nodes. Rt. MRM on 1-3-06 -- No Rads due to compromised lungs. Chemo started 2-7-06 -- TCH - - Finished 6-12-06 Finished yr of wkly herceptin 3-19-07 3-15-07 Lt side prophylactic simple mastectomy. -- Ooph 4-05-07 9-21-09 PET/CT "Recurrence" to Rt. axllia, Rt. femur, ilium. Possible Sacrum & liver? Now stage IV. 9-28-09 Loading dose of Herceptin & started Zometa 9-29-09 Power Port Placement 10-24-09 Mass 6.4 x 4.7 cm on Rt. femur head. 11-19-09 RT. Femur surgery - Rod placed 12-7-09 Navelbine added to Herceptin/Zometa. 3-23-10 Ten days of rads to RT femur. Completed. 4-05-10 Quit Navelbine--Herceptin/Zometa alone. 5-4-10 Appt. with Dr. Slamon to see what is next? Waiting on FISH results from femur biopsy. Results to FISH was unsuccessful--this happens less then 2% of the time. 7-7-10 Recurrence to RT axilla again. Back to UCLA for options.