Once I’d been shown what to do with a catheter, intermittent catheterisation was quite easy.
All it involved was shoving a catheter into my bladder twice a day to ensure that I was draining the pee away fully. Nervously I started doing it at home with my long suffering wife by my side “in case I fainted”.
To make it worse it had to be measured each time and a record kept for my next visit to Urology.
However it soon became second nature and the visits to Urology were just part and parcel of the ongoing treatment which continued until around Christmas time when I stopped the morning one and was just continuing with the one before bedtime.
My first visit to Urology after Christmas was when I stopped the intermittent catheterisation altogether.
Since the I’ve had a roller-coaster of a time with my bladder but its getting better now after another 10 months of ups and downs.
Now as I write this in October 2019, it is becoming a distant memory and other things have been happening since stopped the intermittent catheterisation to cheer me up.