Team Reggie

Hi everyone, it's been a while. We'd be lying if we said we hadn't been nervous today being friday the 13th and all.

To tell the truth, the last few weeks have been testing our nerves. Last summer Reggie had two back to back blood infections originating in his double portacath central line. We have since had issues with the scarring fusing to the bottom port. Since clearing these infections everything has been ok. Now for some reason over the last couple of weeks this scarring seems to have separated from the port and an infection has developed around the port which antibiotics have struggled to clear.

Things have progressed quickly over the last few days after Reggie went into clinic midweek for an infusion which had to be done by cannula which resulted in his arm swelling substantially.

Today Reggie had to go under the knife and have his portacath removed as it is no longer safe to use without risking further infection or sepsis. The plan had originally been to remove this at a later date and replace it with a single port for the remainder of his treatment, but due to the infection, Reggie will have to go back under the knife later this month for his single port placing, after we know he is clear of this infection.

Once he came around he was fairly upset and spent quite a while feeling very irritable, but slowly started to feel more himself after a few hours. He's back home now and recovering after what as been a very tiring couple of weeks.