Meet PICC Baby

While I was in the hospital my parents spent hours playing with dolls, but not for fun.  The doll was basically my stunt double, allowing my parents to practice the complicated process of changing my parenteral nutrition infusion, setting the dosage correctly on the pump, and changing the dressings the PICC line insertion in my arm.  The expectation is that once I was discharged, my parents would take over from the nurses and be responsible for this daily process at home. Fortunately for all of us, I was able to start eating solid food again before I went home, but we'll never forget PICC baby.

For more information about PICC lines visit https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/picc-line/about/pac-20468748