PICC Line Adventures Part II

I’ve been busy cracking the case of my own health journey with Lyme disease, and here’s the update!

After I got the surgery to get my PICC line in for my medications, I ran into multiple complications. The incision sight was leaking a lot, which is really unusual, and I walked through these hospital doors almost every day for a week and a half. Doctors and nurses poked and prodded my (super sensitive and bruised) arm, and didn’t know what the heck was going on. And then suddenly the actual tube mysteriously snapped in half! What?! They thought I may need to re-do the surgery. Phew.

I was tired, frustrated, scared, and felt a lot of self doubt. I wondered if I was headed in the wrong direction and wanted to stop everything. I wanted to rip the PICC line out of my arm, walk out of those doors, and give up.

But I got to talk to my friend @schoolinhomestyle at a really difficult moment. And she helped me get out of the fear of what was happening. And sure enough...as soon as I got out of the fear and into “sleuth mode”, clarity came in. I felt like I needed to keep the PICC line in and move forward. And wouldn’t you know it: we figured it out, I didn’t have to re-do the surgery, and my arm healed. And the fruits of my decision to get it started to unfold.

RESULTS SO FAR: more energy, better sleep, a long-standing rash on my neck almost gone, and my white tongue cleared to pink for the first time in 10 years.

More self sleuthing stories to come.