That’s why we need other people around: to learn from their mistakes.
And to find out that catheters have liquid-filled bubbles on the inside…
When my brother was fighting bladder cancer, he would have to cathaterize himself 2x a day to empty his neobladder. Well, he was up at the summer home fishing, with dad, mom was there, his wife wasn’t. He goes into the bathroom and comes out after about twenty minues saying that he can’t get the catheter out. So off to the hospital they go, a small town hospital with luckily a pretty good urologist on staff.
They took an x-ray and mom, dad and Mike all said that the catheter looked like that road sign in PeeWee’s big adventure, ya know, all S curved in and around itself.
The doctor wouldn’t remove it, told him to see his specialist in Chicago. The doc drugged him up enough to get him thru the car ride to Chicago, and once his urologist and oncologist looked at it, they got it out. OW!OW!OW!
We kinda laughed about it cuz it was funny in a sick kinda way, but man, I’m sure it hurt like hell.
Muffin -
May I request that we join a mutual suicide death pact?
If I am ever catheterized, please kill me. I will return the favor if you need me to.
Let me know, and we can do the paperwork later.
And let me state for the record -
owowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowowow…
Regards,
Shodan
I had a catheter in when I was hospitalized once… they’re supposed to strap it to your leg to keep the weight of it from pulling on it, but they didn’t. So I had this constant, burning, tugging pain until the next shift nurse came on and fixed it for me. It was really fun watching the little wisps of blood heading down the tube :X
Been there, done that. Not fun.