Home with a PICC line

This post is a bit late, but we did go home from the hospital on 11/20 with a PICC line in Sam's arm. We continued IV medications at home for 10 days. Two days after we stopped the meds, Sam was sick again! We then started a different IV med three times a day. Jeff and I became very good nurses and can now whiz through changing PICC line dressings and giving IV antibiotics. This is something neither of us ever wanted to know how to do, but we were thankful to be able to have him home during this time. Sam had several tests during this hospitalization. He had a head CT, sinus CT, kidney ultrasound, hip CT, two days with a catheter and several other tests! We do know that he will need to have surgery on his hips sometime this spring. The recovery from the hip surgery will be six weeks in a cast. We are taking things one day at a time right now, and trying to keep him as healthy as possible during the winter months.