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Posted 3/5/2010 4:15 PM (GMT 0)
Yes, it's Friday once again. Use to mean a lot to me back when I had a job/carreer. Since I am so long term unemployeed, the days and weekends jsut blend into weeks and months. Had my Purgatory nickname for years before I ever had PC or heard of HW, but right now, these past months seem like I am in a state of limbo, or purgatory. Been stuck in this holding pattern forever. If, or when, I ever break out of it, looking foward into trying to get back into the fullness of my life.

The dr/surgeon said to leave the foley cath in a min. of 3 full days, that will be up at noon. We are going to wait till the morning, Saturday, that is when my pain level at the lowest, and swellings the least, and my wife will attempt to remove the offending catheter. If all goes well, I will be in 75% less pain by this time tommorw. This is my 3rd full day, plus, of just sitting at home. Been too sore where I sit, to want to go anywhere in a car. So hopefully, when I am back to one cath, the SP, like will at least better by a degree.

David in SC
Posted 3/5/2010 6:20 PM (GMT 0)
Good luck, David. Hoping that you feel relief and some comfort for the weekend.
Posted 3/5/2010 6:23 PM (GMT 0)
David.

Hang in there. Can you get some fresh air. May sound silly, but sometimes just breathing in may help out. Or just be outside (if it is not to difficult or cold) and just stare at the trees/sky whatever.

Best wishes.
Posted 3/5/2010 8:45 PM (GMT 0)
thank you maxed and wigged out.

still was too sore to drive after 3 days, but my youngest son took me to a few local places I needed to run errands. It felt good to be out of the house, been stuck inside all week, but the soreness from sitting on the car seat reminded me how sore I still am.

david in sc
Posted 3/5/2010 8:55 PM (GMT 0)

Hi David, you're still recovering, so don't be hard on yourself. Do you like to cook? Sometimes I find solace in cooking if I'm copped up inside for a while.

Hope all goes well for you tomorrow!

Posted 3/5/2010 9:22 PM (GMT 0)
Hey Dave, On a lighter note I have to tell this story. After one of my first bouts with a stricture and having a cysto done and cath put in. The surgeon told me to keep the cath in for a week and take it out myself because I live a 100 miles from his office. Since I had experience with caths from my medical background he didn't think I would have any problems. Well Monday morning arrived, my wife goes to work around 5:30 am I don't have to be to work until 8 am. I get up around 6 am, clamp the cath with hemostats and drink 3-4 cups of coffee. It is time for me to start getting ready for work and i really have to go pee. I decided to do this in the shower, remember I was born missing both legs. I get in the shower and prepare myself mentally. I cut off the little tube on the side of the cath that is used to put water in and out of the balloon that holds the cath in place. This should allow the balloon to deflate and then just start pissing and gently pull on the cath and should slide right out, LOL that is the plan anyway. Well when I cut this off a little bit of wter did come out, remember I had 3-4 cups of coffe in me and had to go bad. So I am trying to piss this darn thing out and it won't budge. So I am tugging and still nothing. It seemm like an eternity, I am sure it was only a minute or two at the most. I am starting to get queasy and light headed (remember no one is home but me) about to pass out. I am thinking isn't this just great. By the way I have taken the phone into the shower with me in case I have to call someone. Now I am thinking I am going to pass out in the shower naked with this freaking catheter sticking out of me and someone is going to find me like this. Well I give the cath a couple of good tugs and the balloon deflates and all of a sudden the catheter shoots out of my penis like a rocketed prjectile hitting the other side of the shower stall. Boy was I relieved! ROFL! Of course all was good for a couple of weeks until i scarred over again. I will let you all laugh at this. I have another good one for you that happened 6 months later when they were having me, my wife and the neighbor all trying to self cath me. Until then. Kbars                  
Posted 3/5/2010 9:25 PM (GMT 0)
Hope we are sending good weather your way - DFW has mid 60's & sunshine, and its moving east. I got out for a professional group meeting last night, first time since my surgery - 3 hours moving around and I felt like I had been on my feet for a week, came home and was so beat I slept 10 hours. At least the pads held. I guess "getting better" wasn't on my list for this week either.
Hang in there. But then we expect it of you, having done it so often -
Posted 3/5/2010 9:29 PM (GMT 0)
Looking forward to Saturday's post :)
CareBear
Posted 3/5/2010 9:31 PM (GMT 0)
Dave I forgot the moral of the story for you to remember when you remove your cath. Use a syringe big enough to suck all the WATER out of the balloon so it doesn't hang up in the bladder neck like mine did! Kelly 
Posted 3/6/2010 12:24 AM (GMT 0)
Good point, Kelly

The doctor, gave my wife two of the correct syringes in case anything went wrong. I know a cath can stick, but with my previous 12 that have been removed, they all dropped out like the nasty slimy snakes they are.

My doctors approach of having me stand up when a cath is removed makes more sense to me, as natural gravity in the errect position makes it easier for the cath to drop.

Thanks for the tip

David in SC
Posted 3/6/2010 1:40 AM (GMT 0)
purg--- you deserve a vent-- vent more-- it's good....I am praying for you-- you will get this done-----C
Posted 3/6/2010 2:56 AM (GMT 0)
thank you craig, we are still planning on pullling one of the two caths in the morning, #13, the evil pain causing foley cath. Had too many severe level spasms today to even remember the count, almost anytime i would go from sitting or laying, to the standing position, have to prop against a wall to contain the pain. had one so severe in walgreen's picking up a med with my son, thought i was literally going to fall over. so hope that works in the morning, wont get rid of all the pain, but will greatly reduce it for now.

david in sc
Posted 3/6/2010 3:26 AM (GMT 0)
David - here's hoping for a good boring day for you - will do my imagery prayers for you - and here's to a slimey snake free existence for you -
- have you tried meditation for the pain? - I recall some of the cancer centre ads on tv talk about a well rounded approach to cancer and cancer management - getting out of the physical form through medication could possibly help... or maybe discover your inner teenager ( rather than child) and get a water bed , drag out the old 8-track stereo and escape back to a more carefree time....

-wishing you peace and contenment -

ohmmmmmmmmmmmm.....

hugs
BRONSON
Posted 3/6/2010 3:34 AM (GMT 0)
Bronson, nope, never tried meditation, can't say I am either for or against, know nothing about it. I have done some consulting work for a hynotherapist, and keeps offering me free hypno stuff for the pain side, but to be honest, afraid of stuff like that. Hopefully I can keep working through all of this without resorting to "out of the norm" approaches. But definitely not against stuff like that.

David in SC
Posted 3/6/2010 3:40 AM (GMT 0)
David -
here is a link for info -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_Meditation

what has helped me is to use it to help regulate blood pressure and stress - just breathing exercises and focusing on good things - to help cope with the bad - in a manner of speaking it is "self-hypnosis" - nothing like the horror movies or any loss of control - but gaining control so you can be as normal as can be.

hugs.
BRONSON

ZZZzzz...
Posted 3/6/2010 7:11 AM (GMT 0)
Hi David,

I hope the cath removal goes well and you get some relief on Saturday.

All the best,

Barry
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