Well…running a bit early today with waking up at 3 to pee and then just sleeping til a little after 4….kept trying to go back to sleep but it didn’t work so I just climbed out of bed and here I sit at 5:34…I am so surprised at the progress I’ve made with my incontinence after the surgery…you are not suppose to be dry and be able to control your bladder one day after the catheter comes out but that is just what happened….was completely dry overnight and only had a little problem when I got home after the urologist appointment….I guess the months of Kegel exercises did some good…I mean I was doing 200 of those suckers a day….and I’m doing more as I sit here right now after getting the okay from the PA yesterday….I did get a few things done yesterday…got the perennials cut down along the back of the house and cleaned it up the dirt and plant matter from the sidewalk and today I’m going to do the weed walk and try to get them back under control…and then I need to do the grocery run later with my daughter since I am trying to not drive for another week to make sure I’ve healed enough and don’t re-injure myself…not much to do today…going to have coffee for the first time since last Friday and I am really looking forward to it…more later…
Monthly Archives: August 2023
Catheter is out…
Well…the happy day came today when I got the damn catheter out and with it some good news…they need to test you before it comes out so they filled my bladder through it to the point it was painful and then sat me on the side of the table, told me to breathe in and out and just yanked it out…lots of pressure but not a lot of pain and I was able to pass all of the saline they injected into me and passed the test…ha,ha….and the PA explained the concern that my surgeon’s nurse had about me doing too much with the cath in….it could tear the urethra and then I’d be back to surgery again and could die….but now, I can start to ramp up my activity…still no heavy stuff but I did go out and cut down the dead perennials and swept up the dirt on the back sidewalk and cleaned the mat at the back…and did laundry that I’m waiting on to finish in the dryer…damn, it feels good to be able to just do stuff without that bag…but now I’m going to take it easy since my daughter came out and gave me the evil eye for doing too much…the PA looked at me and told me I’ll do just fine getting to not peeing myself and it should happen soon…it’s not too bad right now even so I think I’ll get there before the UK trip…all in all, a good day…
They finally start coming around…
Well…have been reading a lot lately…okay, all the time and I came onto a trend that is making me smile…the media is finally starting come around and recognize the good that “Bidennomics” is doing…the economy grew at a solid 2.6% last quarter, inflation is down to under 3%, and the job market is strong…and people are getting real wage increases across the board…and it is all from the policies that Biden and his team put into place before the repubs took over the House and stopped any help for normal Americans…and today, I read an article that said if the dems can get the people to understand the numbers, Biden is going to cruise to a second term and take both the house and senate in 2024…and then the real progress starts as he can build on the successes by protecting SS and Medicare and the LGBTQ community with federal laws that will nullify all of the hate laws the repubs have passed over the past few years…and there will be a national voting rights law that will take it all out of the repubs hands…and if that happens, we may never have to listen to those assholes again…I can hope, anyway….
August 1st
Well…today’s the day…I get the catheter out this morning at around 9 or so and I am so looking forward to it…the damn vinyl tubing that the bag plugs into has stretched and the tube kept falling out all day yesterday and then it did it last night and dumped urine everywhere so I put it back in and duct taped the damn thing so I could get a little sleep…got out of bed with just a little pain today and it doesn’t hurt much as I let the painkillers start to work but I know it will be a new kind of day as I start the recovery…I’m sure the catheter coming out is going to hurt but the ibuprofen I just took should take care of that…with the new restrictions on movement, the weed walk will have to wait until next week even though the sprayer and weedkiller only weigh about 5 lbs but I have to bend over to hit the weeds so I guess I need to wait…didn’t get much done but laundry yesterday and that sucks…I am going to have some big tomatoes in a couple of weeks and can’t wait for that and I will need to harvest some broccoli, too but I think that can wait til later in the week…not much to do today…I promise I’ll get back to doing a political one today since I probably won’t feel like doing much else…more later…