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#46962 06-11-2006 11:47 AM | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 10 Member | | Member
Joined: May 2006 Posts: 10 | Has anyone else had blood come out their pick? In the night my brothers pick began bleeding and he had to go to the hospital. Does it happen often? | | |
#46963 06-11-2006 12:03 PM | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 378 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 378 | 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.
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#46964 06-11-2006 12:17 PM | Joined: May 2006 Posts: 10 Member | | Member
Joined: May 2006 Posts: 10 | He had to go on the weekend so they just cleaned out the PICC and sent him home from what I could gather. He went to the hospital that's doing his chemo and radiation so I would think they would know the right thing to do. Orginally when his PICC went in it was in too far and then had to go back and pull it back a little. Would that make something like what happened today happen?
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#46965 06-12-2006 04:21 AM | Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 378 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts)
Joined: Apr 2006 Posts: 378 | It sounds like they flushed the line and made sure it was working, which is the right thing to do. Sometimes PICC lines need to be adjusted. It's always scary when something unexpected happens, tell him to hang in there and make sure they know about anything unusual when he goes for radiation/chemo. 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.
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