Blood clot July 2008

Christian is not having much luck. We have been in and out of hospital and now he has developed a blood clot and thrombosis in his arm.
On 27Th July just as he was feeling a little bit better, I noticed his left arm a bit swollen and bluish colour. We had to go to our local hospital for blood and platelet transfusion so I mentioned it to the doctor. He measured both arms and told nurses not to use the line for a transfusions, so he had to have cannula in his right arm ( lots of crying and screaming again).
His line has never worked very well, we actually had so much trouble with it. Every time nurses tried to get blood out it would not work or would work in certain positions. Usually they had to put some medicine to thin the blood and we would have to come back after 24 hours. That meant lots of trips to hospital , delayed blood tests and chemo.
On 28TH morning Christian had a scan and it appeared he had a blood clot, so we were told the line has to be removed immediately and for that Christian had to be taken to St Georges Hospital in London by ambulance.