This is Josie's port aka "the button." She really guards this part of her body. We call it the button. Just the other day she realized the nurses were calling it a port and asked me if it was a port. It a was two day hospital week so we were there a lot. Picking up on the lingo-Smart kid. A port is a direct line implanted under her skin. Her blood work, organ testing, and some IV chemo's can be administrated through it. Normally, it looks like a raised water bottle lid underneath her skin. It is amazing how less complicated chemo days are because of this really cool device. It also saves her veins from being ruined.
Anyways, one day I got home from the hospital and realized that the iv needle was still attached. (Which means the port was still accessed) I know, how does some one get home with that attached? Well, if you live at the hospital things just go unnoticed. And, she wears clothes which covers it up. As you can see in the picture she had a tube coming out of her button. It totally freaked her out when I was changing her diaper and we both realized that it was still there. I live an hour away from the hospital-So my nurse meet me half way at the costco/tacobell/gas station parking lot and detached the iv and put heparin in her port to prevent any clotting. If anyone was watching; I am sure that was one very odd drug deal. A nurse with a mask on, pumping a syringe into a tiny tube that was coming out of a kids chest. Oh well, I was sure glad I didn't have to go all the way back to the hospital. I had left at 7:00 am and got home around 3:00 so going all the way back would have been exhausting. Especially when you feel like you live there any ways. Josie is one little trooper!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
