Foley
Speaking wiht a dear old friend tonight, we recounted some of the surgery battles we’d had.
One in particular- I was in the hospital for a surgery to remove torn cartilage from my left knee. They wouldn’t let me leave the place until I could piss, and I couldn’t quite work one up, so this sadist nurse foley’d me.
I had no idea they were supposed to use lube. I had no idea they were supposed to use lube to REMOVE it.
This bitch yanked that bastard out of my pecker like she was pulling the starter rope on a McCullough Chainsaw. I made a noise that shouldn’t come out of a human. And I pissed needles a week after.
Dumb damned bitch.
Had a nurse do that to me when I had my knee replaced. She jerked that thing out of poor lil’ Roscoe and it hurt so damn bad, I decked her. They called my Dr., the cops and Hospital Management. When they found out what “Nurse Rachet” had done the management guy apologized to me, most satisfingly abjectly, then turned and canned Nurse Ratchet. One of the cops’ relatives is a lawyer, who visited me in the hospital to see if I wanted to sue for allowing that nurse to assault me. Didn’t, should’ve.
Did you catch which feminist organization she was a member of?
I’d kill for less.
There is no mechanism on a Foley cath to lubricate it prior to removal, Og.
And pulling that thing out rapidly, really is the most humane way for most folks.
Bottom line? Catheters just suck. That tender tissue lining the inside of Mr Chubby just isn’t made for the abuse we, as men, so willingly impose on the outside.
Sorry about the bad luck, hope you feel better and have a Merry Christmas.
Grumpy, you been bamboozled too, I see.
Since the nurse corps has to lay hands upon Mr Happy to get the catheter out, are you sure that Mr. Happy wasn’t getting happier just before the ex-foley-ation?
Perhaps they should have had one of those ammonia poppers handy to make sure Willy wasn’t rising to the occasion.
I had them on both of my gut surgeries, and the first time, they left it in too long and it festered, giving me a UTI, and then the removal was six times as bad. As soon as I woke up from the seocnd surgery, I started raising hell about getting the catheter out. The nurse corps gave me the fish-eye, but I sweetly told them that all those trips to the potty were good for my circulation and helped prevent pneumonia, and they couldn’t argue with that, so they got it out quickly, and yes, they did yank it again, and yes, I DO think it’s the least painful way to do it. Sort of like taking adhesive tape off of hairy skin…
Guys: they’re supposed to block it and let you try to pee first. This provides a little lube for the process. Take it from a man who saw his father pass half a dozen surgical tubes from one kidney surgery or another.
Hmmm, I’ve had a couple of FC’s done on me at various times in the ER. The first one was like you describe, nurse just yanked it out when I was done. The pain was indescribable!
Second time, this old, experienced orderly comes in to give me the cath. Took his time, and as I was relieving the pressure on my bladder, he slowly inched the cath out, so by the time I was done, there was only an inch or so left in. A short tug and it was out with NO pain. Don’t be fooled again. There is a proper technique, and impatience is no excuse for putting a patient through what amounts to torture (I’ll tell you anything you want)
Ray