Wednesday, December 20, 2006
On Going Tubeless
Monday morning I had my urinary catheter removed. A glorious moment on the road to recovery!
As part of the process, the urologist needs to do an equipment check. So step one is to fill the bladder. He injected about 200CC of liquid in my bladder. Lets just say that reverse flow is an interesting sensation. Next he removed the catheter & had me urinate out the liquid while demonstrating that I could "manage" my stream - which I did. Reflecting back on the moment, I felt like a child with a new toy.
Leakage wise Monday afternoon was discouraging. By the time I got home, my diaper was full. Every time I moved I could feel a leak. Once home, I switched to pads. I went through 4-5 of those. I pretty much quit drinking liquids around 5 & had no accident over night. Yesterday was much better. I went through 3 pads. One of those was soaked during a 2 mile walk. Last night was also dry even though I was not as restrictive with evening liquids. Bottom line is that continence is improving rapidly. Hopefully that will continue. As for the other thing, no signs of life yet.
On Monday I removed the rest of my steri-strips. The far left incision also looks ugly. But it's not nearly bad as the one shown in the pictures. The urologist gave me a prescription for a stronger anti-biotic - Cipro. It now looks like the first site is finally improving. All the remaining sites are healed with the scabs falling away.
The swelling is pretty much gone. The bruise is about half gone - no more yellow, just purple. I still have a fair amount of soreness. It's not painful, just a dull aching type sensation in the region where the defective tissue used to reside.
Since Monday I've been purposefully urinating frequently - less pressure = less leakage. I'm starting to feel confident so today I'm going to see if I can control a full bladder. Either it going to work or it's going to be a spray fest! ¶ 20.12.06
As part of the process, the urologist needs to do an equipment check. So step one is to fill the bladder. He injected about 200CC of liquid in my bladder. Lets just say that reverse flow is an interesting sensation. Next he removed the catheter & had me urinate out the liquid while demonstrating that I could "manage" my stream - which I did. Reflecting back on the moment, I felt like a child with a new toy.
Leakage wise Monday afternoon was discouraging. By the time I got home, my diaper was full. Every time I moved I could feel a leak. Once home, I switched to pads. I went through 4-5 of those. I pretty much quit drinking liquids around 5 & had no accident over night. Yesterday was much better. I went through 3 pads. One of those was soaked during a 2 mile walk. Last night was also dry even though I was not as restrictive with evening liquids. Bottom line is that continence is improving rapidly. Hopefully that will continue. As for the other thing, no signs of life yet.
On Monday I removed the rest of my steri-strips. The far left incision also looks ugly. But it's not nearly bad as the one shown in the pictures. The urologist gave me a prescription for a stronger anti-biotic - Cipro. It now looks like the first site is finally improving. All the remaining sites are healed with the scabs falling away.
The swelling is pretty much gone. The bruise is about half gone - no more yellow, just purple. I still have a fair amount of soreness. It's not painful, just a dull aching type sensation in the region where the defective tissue used to reside.
Since Monday I've been purposefully urinating frequently - less pressure = less leakage. I'm starting to feel confident so today I'm going to see if I can control a full bladder. Either it going to work or it's going to be a spray fest! ¶ 20.12.06
