I rub at the sore area on my chest where you can just see the outline of my portacath beneath the skin. The portacath was put in over a year ago. It lives under my skin on my chest and it makes it easier for the nurses to get treatments into a tube and pumped fast into my body.I’m at the special CF centre. It’s a bit like a hospital, but it’s only for people with CF. There’s a whole team of people here to help people like me. As I got diagnosed when I was a tiny baby, I’ve been coming here forever and know everybody in the building. There’s Mr Rogers, the consultant who’s in charge of my health. Then there’s Trisha, the nurse. She does things like pump antibiotics into my portacath when I’ve got a chest infection and she takes special swab samples from me every few weeks to check that I’m not getting a new infection. People with CF get loads of colds and coughs, same as everybody else, but if I get one it can turn into something nastier and make my lungs even more rubbish than they already are.
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