Repeating the process
January 5th 2009 21:39
Back on the 9th December I reported getting a urinary tract infection as a result of having had a prostate biopsy. And finished up having a catheter put in which I'm still wearing - although it's catheter number two rather than the original.
I got up yesterday morning, felt good, walked to work for the first time in a while (partly due to all the holidays) and then, as the day went on, things got very uncomfortable, with lots of stinging as the catheter affected a certain important male part of my anatomy.
Felt exhausted when I got home, had a bit of a kip, and then later on did the vacuuming. I was going to go in the bath after that, to try and soothe things down below, but then had one of those moments when I just had to pee, and instead of it going down the catheter it came out as normal. (Quite nice feeling, in a way, but not what you want as things stand at present.)
This was concerning, as it shouldn't happen, so we rang A & E (Accident and Emergency) to see if they had a nurse who could just check the water levels in the balloon that holds the catheter in place inside my bladder. Nope, they were expecting people in as a result of a big accident, so I'd be way down on the priority list.
So my wife, after a bit of consideration, rang one of the nurses who works in the same health centre as she does. And the nurse offered to go up to the centre and check the catheter out for me! What generosity!
She found that the water level was about 4 somethings too short (millilitres?) which is why things had become particularly irritating during the day. But the process of correcting this was extremely unpleasant, particularly as no anaesthetic was involved!
This morning I got up, feeling well under the weather, shivery and in general feeling as though I'd dropped into a hole. Finally, though both of us were running late for work, my wife took a urine sample from the catheter (a bit of a mission in itself) and I went over with her to the health centre. The nurse 'dipsticked' it and pronounced it full of bugs. Obviously it'll get properly tested today at the lab, but the dipstick approach is enough to go on.
So it was back to the doctor and back onto antibiotics and here I am at home not allowed to go to work today. I've never had so much time off work in my life!
I got up yesterday morning, felt good, walked to work for the first time in a while (partly due to all the holidays) and then, as the day went on, things got very uncomfortable, with lots of stinging as the catheter affected a certain important male part of my anatomy.
Felt exhausted when I got home, had a bit of a kip, and then later on did the vacuuming. I was going to go in the bath after that, to try and soothe things down below, but then had one of those moments when I just had to pee, and instead of it going down the catheter it came out as normal. (Quite nice feeling, in a way, but not what you want as things stand at present.)
This was concerning, as it shouldn't happen, so we rang A & E (Accident and Emergency) to see if they had a nurse who could just check the water levels in the balloon that holds the catheter in place inside my bladder. Nope, they were expecting people in as a result of a big accident, so I'd be way down on the priority list.
So my wife, after a bit of consideration, rang one of the nurses who works in the same health centre as she does. And the nurse offered to go up to the centre and check the catheter out for me! What generosity!
She found that the water level was about 4 somethings too short (millilitres?) which is why things had become particularly irritating during the day. But the process of correcting this was extremely unpleasant, particularly as no anaesthetic was involved!
This morning I got up, feeling well under the weather, shivery and in general feeling as though I'd dropped into a hole. Finally, though both of us were running late for work, my wife took a urine sample from the catheter (a bit of a mission in itself) and I went over with her to the health centre. The nurse 'dipsticked' it and pronounced it full of bugs. Obviously it'll get properly tested today at the lab, but the dipstick approach is enough to go on.
Medical Dipsticks
So it was back to the doctor and back onto antibiotics and here I am at home not allowed to go to work today. I've never had so much time off work in my life!
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