I can’t remember every time my chest got poked, but there
were times when I couldn’t get up early in the morning and wouldn’t put on the
numbing cream. I remember the first time I had to put on the cream. To make
sure the cream wouldn’t get on your shirt you basically put saran wrap on your
crest. Now the first time I had to do this my mother put the cream on and she
basically covered my whole chest in saran wrap. It felt like I a fresh fish
being saved for later; but there were times when my dumbass wouldn’t put the
numbing cream on. At first I thought it a smart idea, because I wouldn’t have
to deal with the cold cream on my chest. Eventually we would get to the
hospital and I have to get poked in the chest, and the first few times. I held
tough, but eventually the poke would start to get to me. During the end of my
treatment I would get it poked in and get it pulled out in five minutes. It defiantly
wasn’t the same with the first six months. Sometimes it was left in for hours,
days, or weekends. Sometimes the nurses would put a big piece of this saran
wrap on my chest a something to keep the port from being infected. I couldn’t
take a shower or do anything physical for however long the needle was in me.
But at least I could get fucked up and people would understand. Those days were
weird. Everyone thought I was strong, I was just trying to be normal, but there
was nothing normal about those days