Tomorrow Marge gets her port. It is a minor procedure, much like a pacemaker. It is placed under the skin and then the incision is glued back together.
She checks into the Hospital at 9:30am. As I recall the procedure takes under an hour. She wouldn’t be out completely, but won’t remember much. Hopefully we will be home by 1:00PM or so.
What Marge does remember from the last port procedure was that afterwards it felt like her collarbone was broken. A good memory is not always at good thing….. We’ll take it easy the rest of Tuesday.
Wed-Friday will be the long days of chemo in the hospital. The whole regime takes 12 hours each day. One of the drugs is Ifosfamide, a nitrogen mustard (related to mustard gas of WWI/II fame.) That’s a little scary…
Again thanks for you prayers.
Jim
Thanks for keeping us updated so we know how to pray.You know you are in our prayers and we know who holds our hands...thanks be to God! Love and hugs to you both! Bitsy
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