Seems that the 4 week sentence for my dad and his catheter is up already. The doctor called out of the blue yesterday and said he could take it out. My father assured me he knew what to do, and, naturally, I got a call from him at 6 o'clock this morning saying he couldn't get it out. I knew he had just cut the wrong tube, but, I had him call the office back anyway for further instructions.
So, now, we just wait for him to pee. Why yes, that was the problem in the first place, and, no, I don't know why we think this time will be any different, but, we'll see. Think good pee thoughts. And, I'm sure the moment he gives up trying will coincide with the time my mother's sitter has to leave and we will all be scrambling to get him to the doctor and someone to stay with her. Heh, we have to "relieve" the sitter if he can't "relieve" himself.
I have resorted to bodily function jokes and it's barely 9am.
Don't know what in the world I'm talking about? Consider yourself lucky. I have enough knowledge of my parents' excretory systems for all of us.
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It's one thing to be a caregiver to stangers, and something completely different when it's your own parents. Hang in there Busy Mom.
I have to pee - if it helps....
Good luck to your father.
we have a cat watering bowl in our kitchen that has running water. It gives me the urge often.
Good luck to him.
I just think about all those trips on the interstate when I KNOW I should have gotten off at the last exit to pee and then realized that the next exit is 27 miles away an you are not sure that the exit even has anywhere TO pee.....
oh, the humanity....
seriously, hope that it all goes well..
Just reading this makes me have to pee. I hope all goes well. You certainly have been through a lot lately caring for your parents.
Thinking lots of warm, happy thoughts for your dad.
And for you, this CAN'T be fun.
First, good luck to your dad. My dad had problems with elimination after a prostate operation, and it really was awful.
At least you're a nurse -- my career isn't in medicine, yet my mother feels it necessary to describe her bowel activities in great detail to me. Ugh!!!
Sending good thoughts your way
Well now I'm confused. Is "excretory" what you write or what you do?
(Ho ho har de har har. I am nuts.)
I'm so sorry your dad and your family is going through all this right now, when you have your hands full as it is. I remember a few years back from my friend's dad had prostate surgery, but he ended up having the opposite problem of your father - he couldn't stop himself from peeing. I remember my friend telling me his dad wore diapers 24/7 for months afterwards (and if the preschooler formerly known as Busy baby objects to wearing them at night, imagine how a 50 year old man must have felt). Personally, I don't think either situation is too appealing. Hoping everything "comes out" okay.
You're not following him around while he drinks from a sports bottle filled with juice and asking "Do you need to go potty?" every half hour, are you? Oh wait, that's how potty-training is going right now at our house. At least your dad can talk in complete and coherent sentences. :)
Oh, shew. I really thought you were going to have to remove it for him. Removing it from strangers (or even your own kids) is one thing, but I'm sure no one wants to do that for their dads.
It's good to see you haven't lost your sense of humor! Thinking pee pee thoughts for your dad. I'm wiping up pee all day too it seems. (Potty learning preschooler.)
I m so relieved he can pee atlast,
good luck to him, hope everything goes right way.
If only I could get my 4-year-old to poop on the potty.