Port question

[BonnieR]

Hi everybody. I have seen the surgeon this morning at the recommendation of the treatment center and oncologist. They want me to have a port installed to ease the remainder of my treatments, blood draws, etc. I will be receiving Herceptin for several more months. And of course, routine lab work etc.. I would like to know your experience with ports. Best location, etc..... There is a bit of a question where to install mine since I had a bilateral masectomy. But the non-malignant side is the one that is getting neuropathy and is already compromised. So we are thinking of putting the port in the side that had the cancer. But that should not really matter since both sides had a few nodes removed....and the cancer side is the one we have been using for all my infusions, etc, because it has less neuropathy, better range of motion etc... I hope I am making sense. Anyway, I am going back to see the surgeon this afternoon to make the decisions and any input from you ASAP would be greatly appreciated.