The morning after my first meeting with Dr Vishwanath I was admitted on Ward Six for 36 hours - I had a single room, nice and clean. I had decided to get a Chemo Port - a valve implanted under the skin underneath the color bone, which allows the Chemo medicine to flow directly into the main veins leading to the heart. If the medicine is entering through smaller veins near the wrist, there is the risk of blocked veins, which easily allows the Chemo medicine to infiltrate the surrounding tissue, and this leads to bad infections and ulcers. Here in India I had seen ladies with big dark holes in their arms - the flesh being eaten away by the Chemo medicine. It looked rather scary, so I definately wanted to have a Chemo Port to be saved from such misery.....
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