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Final PICC pic


Tim's still hanging in there! He had what we hope is his final week of the bags last week and got his PICC line taken out on Friday. I'm sure it's really freeing for him not to have a little tube flapping around every time he moved his arm and he thoroughly enjoyed taking his first shower in months on Monday night.

That tube was in his arm for almost 4 months!

T has been experiencing some painful headaches as a side effect of the lumbar puncture that they had to do on him last Thursday to inject the spinal chemotherapy. He read somewhere that it has to do with the spinal fluid leaking out of the hole that was made and away from his cranium, causing the headaches. I don't pretend to know if all that is accurate, but it sounds valid to me. The pain is lessened when is either standing or lying down, but it is particularly bad when he is sitting. Unfortunately, there isn't much lying down or standing around during finals week, so he has been in pain. The effects are only supposed to stick around for about a week, so we're hoping that tomorrow he feels better.

The LP wasn't bad last time, but this time he got up before the allotted time. He was meant to lie completely flat and still for at least one hour before moving around, but they were pumping him full of liquids and he had to use the bathroom REALLY bad, so he got up after 45 minutes. Let this be a lesson to anyone who needs a lumbar puncture in the future. We're not sure if that's the reason for the headaches all week, but it's something he'll certainly avoid next round!