When someone receives a cancer diagnosis the entire family feels the weight of it. As my mom watched me endure infusions, surgeries, and the “uncomfortable” side effects of cancer treatments, she decided she had to do something to help those fighting to survive this disease. It was during one of my first infusions that my mom discovered how she might be able to do this. My port was very new, about a week out of surgery, and still very tender. The nurse noticed this and said he would get me a port pillow to use before I left. The pillow helps to eliminate the pressure and discomfort from the seatbelt on your port. On the ride home I expressed to my mom how much nicer it was to be in the car and not be in pain. That was all it took for her to get busy creating an pattern and sewing up baskets full of port pillows. Since that first infusion we estimate that we have donated over 2,000 pillows to two local cancer centers I receive treatment at and over 1,000 to another local hospital that I do not receive treatment at. My own kids, along with their friends, and my mom, sister-in-law, nephew, and myself have worked to continue to create these pillows. We thought because of how much comfort it had brought to me that others might be in need of that same comfort. If you don’t have these offered at your local infusion center we would be happy to mail you one directly. Please fill out the information below and we will send you one of the port pillows that have been loving created by my family.