What are those tubes sticking out of Owen's chest?
I have made a sketch to show where they go. They enter his body and travel under his skin up to his neck where they are turned around and fed into his jugular vein, then back down to the top of his heart. There is a scar on his neck where the surgeons cut in to the vein.Everything has healed up, and Owen can have a shower as the clear bandage that you can see in previous photos is like a verandah, stopping any water getting where the tubes enter his body, but he cannot have a bath or swim in case the area gets infected.
Owen has to play carefully as well as it would be a real problem if the line was damaged or torn out. He pins the ends to his shirts to stopped then getting caught.Apart from the inconvenience, they are great for medication and fluids.
We hope that he will have them for a year then they will change it to another type that will let him play sport and swim again (and rejoin Nippers)
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