I decided to post a blog showing Scarlet's hickman line again. I change her dressings once a week or more depending whether or not she pulls at the dressing. I've posted about this before but in case you've forgotten, it is a catheter that is inserted into her vein in her neck extending to her heart, it exits just beside her nipple to prevent infection . There are a couple stitches externally but there is, I forget the name for it, something just on the inside where it exits that was put in place to keep it from coming out easily.
Here is the finished product after the cleaning. Michael was taking pictures so that's probably why she isn't screaming. She was more interested in watching him.
The circle around the site is called a biopatch. It is infused with antibiotics to keep the site clean.
Scarlet is getting a daily IV infusion of magnesium to keep her levels up. She is still on Prograf (tacrolimus) that causes her to be deficient. We've just gotten some bad news so we don't know how long she will have the hickman line now. We thought it would be out in September, but now it looks like she will still be needing it longer.
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