Woohoo! One of the techs that was the first to try and insert needles into my fistula tried again today. Since everyone thinks my veins are both deep and moves around a lot, all the techs try to push the needle perpendicular to my arm to go deep, then dig around to get the blood to flow. This is weird since you can clearly feel the vein right below the skin layer. Anyway, the tech went shallow and got both needles to flow on the first attempt. One of the needles did hurt for the four hours if I moved my arm slightly but they were able to run the machine at 350 mL/min. Sigh… finally. I’m hoping this trend continues so I don’t have to have another surgery on my arm, and they can take out my chest catheter so I can take showers again.
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The arterial “wound” is still bleeding after an entire day. I swapped out two band-aids and it has soaked both of them. I think it’s finally stopped bleeding. I’ve seen “accidents” at the dialysis clinic where blood is squirting out of the arterial needle prick point resulting in a huge puddle of blood on the floor. I hope I don’t get that at home.
Life with chronic diseases 