A central line is a beautiful thing… - Aria MacDonald

A central line is a beautiful thing…

30 Sep at 10:06 pm by Anita MacDonald

They say you don’t appreciate what you’ve got to its gone, and it is true when it comes to Aria’s central line too.

When she has a central line it is so easy to access Aria’s blood stream for all the test that she needs to go through while she is in hospital. Without it poor little Aria has to go through the trials of having numerous finger pricks and the occasional leur inserted into one of her veins to get her precious blood.

We have to get blood samples out of her veins at the moment to see if the bugs have made like Elvis and left the building, however that proved easier said than done today. Aria was a bit puffy as a result of the fluids she is on and the infection she had affecting her fluid balance meaning that it was a real mission to find a vein. It took four goes and two different doctors to finally get the 1ml of blood required to see if Aria is ready for her next line. Hopefully in 48hrs we will have the go ahead to get the next ‘permanent’ line in.

In other interesting Aria news, today Aria found a new favourite toy, one of the hospitals thermometers. It was acquired about 2 o’clock this afternoon and not relinquished till it was dropped out of sleeping hands tonight, a little odd but whatever makes her happy in these hard days.

Thanks for all your prayers and kind thoughts, if we can make a prayer request pray that she will be able to get a new line very soon and also give thanks to God that he preserved the previous one so well, it truly was a great act of graciousness on God’s behalf.