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All right, we're going in order.

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That makes it easy.

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So a port is basically
for chemotherapy.

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For certain kinds
of chemotherapy,

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instead of giving
you an IV, they

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will actually put a pump that
goes directly through your aorta

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into your heart.

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And that is because
the chemotherapy,

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some chemotherapies are
so toxic to your body,

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they basically fry your veins
as they go to your heart.

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So your aorta is big enough
to be able to withstand that.

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And is there anything else?

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No.

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"On the Morning of
the Port Surgery."

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And this is the first
step for some of us

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in our cancer treatments.

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So this was my first
step in cancer treatment.

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"Before dawn, I walk outside

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The clock.

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I strip and fold

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My clothes into a bag, surrender

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My braid.

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I'm wheeled into

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The operating theater

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For the opening act of what

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Will become a defining role--

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Cancer Patient, Stage 3.

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O feather-headed mongrel

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My pickled flea-bit heart

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Thrice sword-stabbed

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Please keep beating.

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Ungraceful, the heart boinks--

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Drugged, suspended,
spider webbed--"

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