Once the mistake of putting a catheter somewhere it should never have been was discovered it was a panic to put it right.
Urologists, Specialist Nurse Practitioners and doctors all appeared, to try to sort out the catheter. After being subjected to all sorts of poking and prodding, while they tried different ideas until it was sorted. WHAT A RELIEF that was!!
The New Catheter
When the first two or three attempts failed the brought in a Specialist Urologist from Manchester University Hospitals who initially failed and said that the answer may be a suprapubic catheter. This would have meant inserting it through my stomach wall in the operating theatre.
At the last moment he remembered another method where he would insert a 1.5 metre length of wire. This would then be used to guide the catheter.
THANK GOD IT WORKED. The relief was immediate and I found out that I’d had almost 3 litres of urine in my bladder, which is a heck of a lot of liquid.
However, now its the 23 October as I write this and I still have the catheter inside me; its called an indwelling catheter.
Yesterday I learned that the catheter will be removed on Monday 12th November – almost 16 weeks from when it went in! Happy Days!