Catheter May be Out (hopefully) in Month or Less

[JScott1753]

My catheter, in a month ago, has been working great. Since the nurses at the clinic get nervous the longer you have a cath. in, it is important to get the new surgery done ASAP. However, when i saw the surgeon last Tuesday, he showed me a row of names of people waiting for surgeries. The row filled up the complete width of a 4 foot wide whiteboard! It seemed I would be waiting until October(!) for my procedure.
Happily, I got a call Friday with the good news that I will do pre-op this Wednesday and get my surgery on August 23 because one of the people ahead of me had to be cancelled, and they "penciled me in."
This means that I may be off my cath. in about a month, with it removed. Yay! No more washcloth baths!
Jon

[Riki]

That was a big deal for me, getting mine out. SHOWERS!! YAY!  *LOL*

I've also been able to go swimming for the first time in 6 years, because I had been on PD before, I wasn't allowed to swim with the PD cath in either, but I could shower.  This is the first time in 6 years that I haven't had some kind of tube sticking out of me, so I'm actually feeling halfways normal again, instead of the freak of nature I felt like before.