ECHO OF THE HEART AND PICC LINE

 Hi Crazy Kids, 

This is a really interesting procedure. They put stickers on your chest, and some weird jelly thing with a probe to take pictures of your heart. You'd think an echo is when your voice bounces off walls at a loud volume of billions of decibels per minute. It's not like that. This is to determine where the PICC line goes. It can be in your arm, or near your chest depending on which is the best possible area for it to be in. You just have to sit back, and breath deeply no matter how much it hurts. The probe goes over your chest and ribs to get a clear picture of your heart. It takes a few minutes. They show you a picture of your heart afterwards. It's amazing how all the muscles and valves look on a picture. You do a double-take and think is that really how a human heart looks. Everything looked good in my P.O.V. (point of view).

They give you a tissue to wipe all the alien type jelly off your body. Then the really technical stuff happens when a line gets put in your left arm. 

THE PICC LINE:

This is a line where all the blood gets taken out from. Chemotherapy can be administered through it. Blood transfusions can be administered through it as well. Things like anti-sickness or anti-biotics can be put inside it as well. So, the procedure is quite painful, but you gotta talk for England. If talking was a sport, I'd be winning an Olympic Gold medal for it. Firstly, you jump up on a medical couch with steps to climb on it, since it's so high up from the ground. A nurse with an X-Ray ultra sound machine comes next to you, gets a ruler or measuring tape to see how long your arm is. and where the best place the line can go so it's not too long or too short. Then comes the cotton ball with the alocohol (or booze as some people like to call it) to clean the area where it's going to go. An X-ray ultra sound machine guides the needle in the right place to give you a local anaesthetic, which hurts like nobody's business. A few choice words were used when this happened. Then the needle goes in your arm with an orange tab that holds it in place. The nurse cuts it to enable it to fit inside the arm of your choice. Then two little bungs are attached to the end of the line, where wires and tubes can be attached to for drips and I.V's. After all that malarkey, a tight bandage is wrapped around the site of the line. A warning is given:

'Don't get it wet under any circumstances or it'll get infected.'

Then the real fight starts when you become attached to machines like velcro. 

When you come out from getting a line your parent/guardian is all worried, when they didn't hear you yelling in agony. You just need to tell them I had super powers like Maui from Moana. For those of you who don't know who that is he's the big curly haired demi-god guy with the magic fish-hook that can help him shapeshift into different animals according to the tattoos on his body. 

I'll leave you awesome people to mull this over in those mazes that you call brains. 

Enoy.

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