Journal entry by Broten Blomker —
Hello everyone, I think it’s time for me to make another post, you know, to keep people in the loop. DONT WORRY NO BAD NEWS TODAY!!!!!!! At Children’s today, I went in for a surgery to get my Chemo Port removed. The surgery went great with no complications. For anyone that doesn’t know what a port is, here is my quick explanation. A port is a little device placed under the skin and most of the time placed on the right side of the chest (mine was on the right). A very basic explanation of a port is it’s used to administer IV meds. It’s just like an IV just more comfortable. Most of the time a port is given to cancer patients because the port is mostly used to give chemotherapy or other DRUGS to make me feel better. That’s what I think a port is, if you want more info, I suggest looking it up on google because the Internet will do a better job at explaining than me. Anyways the surgery went well, and the port is out, should only be sore a couple days. After the surgery I made my way over to the clinic where I got an IV infusion of something that helps my body (I forgot what it is for, and I didn’t want to ask). At the clinic I met with my primary doctor to discuss blood work and Future appointments. The blood work was great as almost everything looks good, there are a few things that are not in their normal range yet, but we will be looking at that next month and we will make decisions based on how things look. Overall today was a good day at the hospital.
If I’m making a post, I might as well give some updates on what I’ve been up to. I am happy to say that I graduated high school 2 weeks ago and I am back to work at discount tire. I've been feeling super good and I haven’t felt this good since December of 2022.
That’s all for now. Hopefully the next post is a good update as well. Finally, From the bottom of my heart I would like to thank everyone that has followed my cancer journey, it is extremely humbling to see so many people look at the caring bridge.
Peace Out Homies
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