Home!!

Well, kinda....

Anthony and I took the train home. That was a harrowing experience, with not a lot of help from other people. Seriously, the ONE time I understand I can't do it all myself, there's no one interested in helping me carry medical boxes and stuff on the train!

Anyways, we returned home at 9pm, I gave him his evening injection of lovenox, then prepared our first at-home IV antibiotic.

Anthony's PICC line wouldn't flush.

Flushing is the the first step to IV antibiotics, and is when you push a syringe-worth of saline in the line, to clean it out.
We tried different positions, made sure the line was unclamped, tried different syringes, made sure the seal in the syringe was broken...nothing.

So, I made a call to Seattle, and in to our local ER we went.

I'm not crazy, it wasn't working. One of our favorite IV nurses at home couldn't get it to work either. We ended up having to use TPA, which is a clot thinner. That worked, so the antibiotics (which are now 5 hours late) are flowing in!

We should be able to return home as soon as the pump is done with the dose, and I'm going to go to bed...until the next lovenox shot is due at 8am.