Portacath

Neil had a portacath installed this morning at the Eastgate Surgery Center. As mentioned before, this is where chemo will be given and blood taken to make it easier on his body. We arrived a little after 9 and they didn't take him back until 9:30 for prep. We were allowed to go sit with him while he waited, then Dr. Hontanosas came and talked to us and marked the place he wanted to put it. They actually took him in to surgery around 10:30 and we were called back a little after that to talk to the doctor and finally got to take him home around 1:00. It was a long morning! Carol took us back to the house and we put Neil on the couch. Now she's watching him while I work. He was still loopy from being put under so hopefully he sleeps a lot. Now, off to work late, then fill his pain medication on the way home. Tomorrow is his meeting with the oncologist, which I unfortunately cannot go to, but Carol will be there. This is when they will do his final staging using all of the test results from the past few days--MUGA, PET scans and the bone marrow biopsy. We are expecting a stage 2 confirmation.