Blood Test

Since today is the day before my next scheduled chemo appointment, I went to Kaiser on my lunch hour to have some blood drawn to see if I am healthy for treatment tomorrow. I got right in to Kaiser. However, I was a little disappointed that the lab said they could not use my port to draw blood. I was under the impression that they could and would use my port and save the arm from being stuck with a needle each time. The lab tech called down do triage to see if they could but was told they very rarely use a port to draw blood and its only on Dr.s orders when they do. Tomorrow I will be asking about that. Every thing went fine today. Tomorrows appointment is again scheduled with Dr. Richert-Boe.