VEINS ARE GONE

Few people or even doctors realize that when the upper body veins are used up for IV purposes that a port into the inferior vena cava proposes a death sentence. My doctors have been encouraging me to get a port in the IVC so that finding veins is not so difficult. I am forcefully against this. Their proposal is for ease of IV access. When I have to consider it the question I have to ask myself is, "Am I ready to die if this doesn't work out well? That becomes a pretty serious question. I am fighting for my life with a raging immune disease and in the middle of this I have to evaluate the decisions about the future of my life. It is not something I want to have to do, but do it I must. I guess it is pretty important to stress that a blood clot is what gave me SVC so the risk of another blood clot is high.