Hi Smitty, no it should not happen and they need to check the placement of the PICC and make sure that nothing else is going on with him. What did they tell him at the hospital? Regards JoAnne


JoAnne - Caregiver to husband, cancer rt. tonsil, mets to soft palate, BOT, 7 lymph nodes - T3N2BM0, stage 4. Robotic assisted surgery, radical neck dissection 2/06; 30 IMTX treatments and 4 cycles of cisplatin completed June 06.