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Bonnie--some times I think you're the West Coast Grace, or I'm the East Coast Bonnie. That's exactly the problem I had when I first started. I loved my chemo nurse but she couldn't get a needle into my veins for twelve months, and she did initially recommend a port. She never had a successful try and always got someone else to start the infusion. I was afraid I had intimidated her and asked her a few times to please try again, but she refused, wisely perhaps.
Getting a port is a tough decision and I wasn't trying to make it tougher for you. I know that should I ever need chemo again (and maybe even herceptin), I would get a port as I did lose my veins at the end. Last infusion took seven tries and I was black and blue everywhere. But even there, it was because the first nurse (of three) refused to use the vein that I recommended. And, of course, that was the one that worked in the end.
Listen to the women who have had ports. They know best.
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