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Posted 2/15/2010 9:15 PM (GMT 0)
thanx guys. that really helps. i hurt my ribs about 12 yesr ago in a mountain bike crash. i remember it hurt bad enough that i had to take tylenol every four hours or so for about a week. and of course i never went to the doctor cool

ed rader

Post Edited By Moderator (TC-LasVegas) : 2/15/2010 2:39:38 PM (GMT-7)

Posted 2/15/2010 9:39 PM (GMT 0)
Ed I think I know where this post belongs to.

I may offer a bit of site coaching here. The three buttons below a thread are "New Topic" "Post Reply" and "Printable". Make sure you hit the "Post Reply" button to respond a thread and your post with stay in that thread. If you hit "New Topic" you might end up out where no -one understands your post...

Tony
Posted 2/15/2010 10:13 PM (GMT 0)
Thanx Tony -- i must have hit the wrong button. i think my reply would make the most sense in the original thread but however you want to handle it is fine by me. sorry for the confusion.

ed r.
Posted 2/15/2010 10:16 PM (GMT 0)
No problem. Thanks for being here...I will quote your post in the other thread for you...


Tony
Posted 2/15/2010 10:31 PM (GMT 0)
Ed,

If and when you have to have a catheter for a couple of weeks, you may think your wife has let you down. Just remember, its not really torture, its just part of the cure.

I think you will be peasantly surprised with wahtever treatment option you choose, it is a relatively painless process.
Posted 2/15/2010 10:42 PM (GMT 0)
Goodlife -- believe it or not the catheter is what i dread the most. before that it was the biopsy that had me in a blind panic for more than a month. i thought that if i could get through the biopsy the cancer diagnosis -- should there be one -- would be a breeze. man was i wrong about that.

ed r.
Posted 2/15/2010 11:50 PM (GMT 0)
Ed -- I worried the biopsy until it was over (no big deal), then I worried the surgery prep (I hate IVs) until it was over (again, no big deal), then I woke up worrying the catheter since I had never had the pleasure of one before. I had the cath for 15 days and, while is was a nuisance, it was not particularly uncomfortable and there was no discomfort when it was removed. The worst part was getting used to sleeping with it and not worrying that I would roll over and pull something loose in my sleep (didn't happen). Now some here have real horror stories to tell about catheters and I truly sympathise with their experiences. Here's hoping that you'll be one of the lucky majority of HW travellers and have an easy time of it.

Good luck,
Garth
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