Thanks for posting that, Missyb. Kelly, I was going to bring this up earlier and so I'm glad she did. I had SEVERAL IV lines in the hospital in February, and I've never had trouble with them before. I've got really friendly veins. But when I had to go down for the second emergency surgery, they ran a PICC line. It goes in your upper arm above the elbow, and the line runs up into your vein nearly to your heart. It is maybe a LITTLE uncomfortable, but it ain't bad. They didn't suture mine, just put a bunch of little tape strips all over it (quite the interesting procedure, I'll tell ya). By the time I left the hospital I was really ready to get rid of that thing, but that was because I had so much stuff attached all over me that my goal was to shuck one of them every day till they were ALL gone!
Having that PICC line in there was pretty cool, though, because it meant an end to the endless sticking with needles all hours of the day and night. They can run IV stuff into it, and pull blood samples out of it, both, with one installation, so it's pretty slick. Ask about it!
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Re: Advice for IV problems (PICC)
