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A little follow-up Posted by Paula on 7/24/2025, 2:27 pm Promise I'll stop talking about my ills pretty soon. The picture is before she dresses it. To dress it, she puts a small piece of black sponge in the wound, attaches the suction tube that runs into the wound vac. Then she seals it with a ton of tape. It's the on/off of the tape 3x week that is tearing up my skin. All the docs agreed that the antibiotics have done their thing. PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter) line is a type of intravenous line inserted into a peripheral vein, typically in the arm, and guided into the superior vena cava (SVC), a large vein near the heart. The SVC is the destination for the tip of the PICC line. So, when Deborah put the medicine in, it traveled to the SVC. Kind of gave me the creeps thinking about that! I was nervous when the nurse was taking it out yesterday but I didn't feel a thing.

I like Posted by Cindyh on 7/25/2025, 6:07 am, in reply to "A little follow-up " Hearing the progress Paula. We’re here to listen.

We all love hearing about… Posted by Cindy on 7/24/2025, 8:46 pm, in reply to "A little follow-up " Whatever you want to talk about! I’m so glad they got that Picc line out. That does sound dangerous! Hoping that your back starts healing on its own soon. I assume the wound vac will have to be out before it will, right? Does he talk about going back in once the infection is gone to stitch it shut?

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