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?

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

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?
I know its a hard question to answer as it could be different things.

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