Chemo Port is Out!

On Monday, I had my chemo port removed.  It was fairly straight-forward.  The nurse had me take off my shirts and lay down on the surgical bed.  She shaved my chest above the port.  The doctor came in and shot lidocaine into my chest.  It was similar to having the dentist numb your mouth.  He then cut me open and removed the port.  There wasn't any pain, just a slight sense of movement.  The weirdest part was when he sewed me back up.  He leaned hard on my chest and I could feel him stitch me up.  There was also a pert where it felt like two zip ties were being tied up.  I asked him if I could keep the port since I couldn't keep any souvenirs from the first surgery when they took something out of me.  I asked him if that was freaky of me and he said a lot of patients ask for their ports.  Who knew?  So, another step towards "normalcy"!