So to start off I haven't been feeling well lately. I've had a terrible cough, coughing up a lot of mucus, and unfortunately my treatments have been rough on me and I started coughing up blood (I know gross, but hey it happened). I called into my doctors office last week and they sent me to do a sputum culture (they do tests on the mucus I cough up to check for any infections) and yesterday at my doctors appointment they told me they found pseudomonas. This is fairly common for those with CF and can be treated a number of ways. Since my oral antibiotics were getting too rough for me and causing me to cough up blood they had me admitted into out patient procedure to have a PICC line put in. A PICC line is basically like an extended IV that is put in with a needle and its a tiny tube that goes from my arm to my heart and they push antibiotics through it. I just got home from getting my PICC line put in, I'm terribly bad with needles, terrified. With the help of my parents and my boyfriend it went fairly well. My arm doesn't feel to well now though. It's hard to lift my arm but I'm supposed to be using it as normal as possible. I start treatments tomorrow through the PICC and I'm hoping it goes better.