Challenges on Stauffer #3
Day 6 and it was a ‘red letter’ day. A hot shower. With the extra paraphernalia of the catheter all I was missing was a flock of little yellow rubber duckies. Dennis got just as wet as I did but it was just great. Beta-din good-bye.
We went on to get several loads of laundry orchestrated. Clean socks and undies – the world is good.
I do have what I hope is one last less than “oh goodie” in regard to the extra issue of this surgery and that being the catheter I am wearing as an additional appendage. Dennis and I made a total of two trips to the ER for catheter irrigation – one on Saturday and on on Sunday. Sunday the ER staff said any additional trips for the same issue would not be processed favorably with insurance. The message would be on my family doctor’s computer Sunday night for him to see first thing Monday morning that I would need a standing order with either the clinic or the hospital for the catheter irrigation. We received a call this noon (Wednesday) that the order could be picked up.
I am so proud of all the help Dennis was and has been with the multiple times day or night he has helped wrangling saline solutions, the syringes and all the ‘clean-up on aisle five” to keep the urine running while my right arm being of no help. Come on – it’s pee, the most taken for granted bodily function by the majority of the world. Only on Stauffer Avenue does it trump—–everything.
I am going back to revealing of the hot shower.