What a scare last night!!!!!!

Jim has a Meherker line.  Bizarre!!!!  We will be posting a picture of this God-Awful tubing that just hangs out of his neck.  It is hooked up to his jugular vein.  Last night it started to squirt out blood which freaked us out beyond belief.  We rushed to the clinic where they applied ice to get the blood to clot.  Then the nurse cleaned up the site and changed the dressing.  Jim is OK.  This morning should be the last day of collection.  Right now, he's hooked up to the Apheresis machine and this process will take 5 hours.  Not sure yet if he needs hydration which takes 4 hours.  More than likely he will need a blood transfusion because his platelets are low.  He's feeling pretty good but is getting really tired of spending so much time at the clinic.  He is being quite the trooper.  His attitude has been positive but would love a break from all this.