A Bump in the Road
This entry was posted on 4/12/2007 10:50 PM and is filed under Recovery, At the Hospital.
For days I have had the urgent urinations, weak streams, and pain in the tip of the penis. I wrote it off as normal variations along the recovery route.
Today I could no longer ignore it. Last night I got up every 30 to 45 minutes. At 5 a.m I dreamed I was peeing again at the toilet. I was peeing all right, but not at the toilet. Disgusted, I got up and went downstairs.
By 10 a.m. I peeing small amounts every 20 minutes and it hurt. I called the doctor.
Sometimes you lose control of events.
Within an hour I was at the doctor’s office and we knew I had at least two problems. I had an infection and I was retaining large amounts of urine. The catheter came next. That tube looks so much bigger than the hole in which it is put.
A catheter is uncomfortable. An infection hurts. A catheter in an infected penis is not to be desired.
Antibiotics will hopefully knock out the infection. Tuesday I will go back in and they will run a tube with a camera on it up the urethra to see if they can find the cause for the retention.
This will not be fun!
