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If I missed your response P.O. I would like to apologize.

So, I use to have one of those catheters in my neck when I first started dialysis like 4 or 5 years ago. Then I got one in my upper right chest, and it is not as effective as the needles or as safe. Scarlett was worried about pulling it out during her sleep, she is a wild sleeper, but I will save that for another post, and I could only sleep on my back or side because if I rolled over wrong the cath could come out, and I could bleed to death in my sleep because it is connected to my arteries, and has a direct line to ly heart.

One time the chest catheter actually did come out when I was in the hospital. I had bed sores on my back, and so I rolled over to get off my back and onto my side, and I rolled onto the catheter, and bam it came out. There was blood everywhere, and for like the 5th or 6th time I almost died. Because no matter how much you scream or press the call button the nurses and techs do not come fast enough.

After that I got a catheter on my stomach for home dialysis. However, it turns out my body stored a tremendous amount of liquid. As I no longer make urine all the fluid stays with me, and it turns out everything is fluid. While the toxins did come out of my body during the home dialysis the fluid stayed with me, and I almost died again. My left foot got Infected, and u lost half of my left foot and my pinky toe on that foot. (Ironically, I don't have my right foot, and my left one still works, well half of it anyway.)

Now previously I had two graphs in my arm fail, one in each arm. The left one failed so bad I almost had my left arm cut off. In fact my left hand is permanently numb because of the restricted blood flow from that failed graph. I'm never going to be able to properly play fighting games again. (Street Fighter for example) After the two failed in my arms, and the one in my stomach, and the limited time that the chest catheter can work, they had to do a hail Mary and put one in my chest, it's called a "Necklace" or "Rosary" graph.

Now my choices were on my thighs, right or left, or in my back at the base of my spine. (F That) The chest graph won out in the end, and after all of that; it is why I get stuck with very sharp needles in my chest 3 times a week, 4 hours at a time.
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