Everything was going so smooth until I was to have the PICC line put in. Shadyside is a teaching hospital so I was going to have a resident put the line in under the supervision of the doctor on duty. Usually the Physician Assistant, Dave would be doing the procedure but they lost the PA supervisor to another job opening. The PA supervisor gave 6 months notice, but the hospital administrator staff never replaced him and the PA cannot practice without working under a PA supervisor (an MD).
To make a long story short, the resident had major trouble finding a vein to work with so the doctor took over. Since the doctor didn’t do this PICC line procedure very often, it was like the blind leading the blind. The 20 minutes procedure turned into an hour and half. The doctor used two PICC lines. The first one got damaged while trying to find a working vein. All the while Dee was in the waiting room. I had told her that the procedure took about 20 minutes. She was climbing the walls. I think she was able to finish knitting the baby scarf in that amount of time.
It was now 1:30 pm and we headed up to my room (718) main.
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