Taking out the port!

We are taking out the port! The MRI results have been good and so the oncologists said that he shouldn't need to have his port any more, yay! Davin started to complain about it hurting around his port and so I called the doctors and they said there isn't any reason why it shouldn't come out so that is what we did. We went in for another surgery before the end of the year. Davin is still a great little guy and wasn't scared at all. But this time he really didn't want the mask that makes him go to sleep. The doctor talked him into it and he decided to do peppermint smell instead of strawberries like before. As we were waiting before surgery we realized we hadn't gotten any pictures of Davin's port so we tried to take some but Davin wasn't happy about smiling for pictures so he gave us a very good frown.

 

 



Everything went well and we were able to go home just a little while after he woke up. It was nice to not have to stay at the hospital again! The next day though the place where the port was started to get really warm and red and swollen and Davin got a fever, yikes! The next day we went back up to the hospital and were going to see another doctor but as we were waiting Davin's surgeon came into the office and said that he would see us :) It was really nice of him to take the time to see us. He said that sometimes the area around the port can get bruised when they take it out, but he gave Davin some medicine to make sure that he didn't have an infection. And after a few days the swelling and redness went away and all was good. Goodbye Port!