Sick of catheter and the changing of the bags. Once you're set up with either bag life's not to bad. But, switching from the leg bag from the bedside bag is not a thing of beauty. My wife and I look like a team of surgeons trying to save a dying patient. (She has not asked for a divorce yet but I'm sure it's crossed her mind).

One more day and I have the bladder x-ray and will see the Dr. later that afternoon. If all goes well, the dreaded catheter is gone from my life and I start the next challenge. I'm ready. I also will get my biopsy report at the same time.

My soreness has lessened each day and I was able to put on my own socks and shoes before taking a short walk. I overdid it and walked too far on 2 different occasions and saw blood in my urine upon returning from the extended walks. It cleared relatively quickly once I sat down and rested. I have reduced the number of laps so as not to damage anything. I feel okay, but I am using pain pills and *****n to get a good nights sleep because I am forced to lay in one position (on my back) which is not my normal sleeping habit.

I will post as soon as I get results tommorrow.

Thanks for all the support and please keep me in your prayers.

Laswell

Wishing you the very best post-op pathology report possible. We've all been where you now are , changing catheter bags,etc. Believe me it gets better. I too drew blood by stepping on the catheter bag in tbe shower carelessly.
I also excercised too vigorously the day the catheter came out and wound up back in the hospital when my leg swelled up and they thought I was throwing a clot. It turned out to be a lympocele. Thats when the lymph starts flowing again without a drain so it pooled in my abdomen closing off
the femural artery. The drain had to be reinserted in the hospital and I was sent home. Two days at home I spiked a fever hitting 105 in 3 hours and went back to the hospital for 4 days with a staph and strep infection which could have been lethal. It took 3 days to culture the particular strains of staph and strep to be sure I was on the right meds. But here I am older, wiser and alive.
You're on your way and will probably look back on this as a bad dream a few years from now. Good Luck again.
Bob

las, getting rid of that catheter is quite a lift -- physically and emotionally -- as i'm sure you can imagine. you'll take a great leap forward when you say goodbye to it. i'll also bet that you'll not have thought possible how much you improve in the next few days. regardng the walking -- you've done a ton more than i did my first few days. leaking with the catheter: ha! the catheter was such a bother a almost didn't notice anything else. while the catheter was with me, i walked only the length of the upstairs hall a few times a day. and that was exhausting! you're doing fine. we all wrestle with this stuff in our own way, no one's experience is exactly the same as anyone else's, and we all describe what we experience in differing words. the progress everyone reports is unmistakeably similar.

good luck; i'm waiting to hear of your pathology report. i hope your recovery continues along the steady path. keep posting.