– I am healing where the catheter fiasco took place. Another stitch worked itself up and was taken out last week. It all feels so much better to have the stitches out. They said there might be more that will work their way out but I am healing quite well. Most things are about the same and I have to go in this week for blood.

The other stitch was taken out Tuesday. That area should get better now and should start healing. I hope soon not to look like I have been in a "slasher" film. With the original port being taken out then the port that was installed in April having to be taken out and another one installed, I have a great deal of healing that needs to take place before that area will be comfortable again.

One good thing happened yesterday, my hemoglobin check showed the count was 10.2 and platelets 19,000 so I do not have to go to the hospital today for transfusions. Yea!!

Things have really been up and down the last few weeks. The stitches from the last port installation have been giving me trouble. It is time for them to be removed because it has been three weeks since the last surgery. Dr. Shorie removed two of them this morning after dialysis but one is so deep I am going to their office in Fort Worth tomorrow at 1:00 to have it removed. He tried but said he will have to do too much "digging" around in the tissue to remove it so I need to go to a more sterile environment because of the risk of infection. There is still a great deal of scar tissue from the removal of the other two ports so it is taking time for all that area to heal. I think I will feel much better when all the stitches are removed.