I wanted to tell you about My Treatment & The Pain: As I said in a previous post, the catheter had been inserted in the WRONG PLACE. I discovered this on Wednesday the 1st of August in the morning. I’d had a night of sheer agony while they thought there were blood clots blocking the drain. The drain bag was full of blood, so they tried “irrigation” which meant a lot of pain for me.
My Treatment & The Pain
Apparently they thought there were blood clots blocking the drainage and they decided to “blast” them away.
So although there was saline drip already attached to the catheter tubes, a junior doctor came along to do it more vigorously with a syringe. He filled it with saline from another source. That was then pumped into the catheter tube before attempting to suck it back out into the same syringe.
The first three or four times were painful…
After that every attempt was even worse. He must have continued for about 30 or more attempts to remove the blood clots and I was writhing in pain and screaming at him to stop.
He didn’t stop… Neither did he check whether I was OK!
After maybe an hour he realised that nothing was happening and left he ward I was on. Not a word to me. I had a very difficult and painful night and I’m sure nobody else in my ward got much sleep either.
As it turned out, I was sent for a scan on my bladder and kidneys next morning (Wednesday 1st August) and the Consultant who did the scan couldn’t see the catheter in my Bladder!!