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I hope you make a complain about the way you were treated!!! I would not let that go - ugh!!! Yes - you can have the port placed on the other side without problems. My first port was placed on the opposite side of my mastectomy six years ago. It flipped just before my last treatment and was quickly removed. Five years later...I had a new port placed. My thoracic surgeon put it in on my left side and used a sonogram to find the best placement. I still have the port on the left side and (knock wood) have not had any problems with lymphodema. When I started treatment for the leukemia, the new onc wanted a Hickman catheter put in. It is a three pronged ugly as sin thing that was placed on my right side. So as of now, I am a hybrid car - gas or electric - just depends on which access thingy you want to use...As too the infection??? It could have been the nurses - unclean practice or your body rejecting the port?? Can't you try an antibiotic before pulling the port. I've read two weeks of Vancomycin may do the trick (but I'm no doctor)...
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