You might need to take the day of insertion off. If that's scheduled for a Fri, then you'll have the week-end free to learn how to do the 'push' and take care of your site IN A STERILE manner.

DO NOT TAKE CHANCES with your PICC line! Sterile technique is EASY but very important!!!

Good luck

(I'm assuming you don't work at a sewage plant. LOL)

I used pressurized balls that infuse at a specific rate, so all I had to do was flush, hook up, flush and go. The whole process took less than an hour each evening. Just be clean when doing infusions and have the dressing changed weekly. Things should go smoothly.

Tom

I have a central line which IMO is much better than a PICC. I can swim and do yoga with my central line in my chest. The infection rate is much lower. Plus no one can see it. I hated that stupid PICC line. It hangs out of your arm and mine got infected and I got a blood clot in 4 days. I hope they are at least giving you a central port in your chest. That is what I would demand!

I love my port. It's the same one chemo patients use. You have to get it installed by a surgeon. That is the only down fall. Plus my can stay in for up to eight years.