Well, I'll add life to an older topic..... I got my first foley experience yesterday. I am being worked up by a urologist for what he thinks is overactive bladder. I have been on two medications and neither one of them have done anything for me so far. The last four months I have had urinary frequency and incontinence and have been going at least 15 times per day with accidents every time I go to the bathroom. The last few days the frequency and the incontinence have picked up and yesterday I got to be pretty bad. I have not slept through the night in the better part of a week now. I had to make contact with my urologist office in reference to the latest medication that was not working to see what they wanted to do about that when I explained the things that taken a turn for the worse and so they got a hold of the doctor and we made phone calls back-and-forth and they told me to go to the emergency room. My wife is an ER nurse so she took me down to the local ER (where she used to work) and I was evaluated by the ER physician. He asked me if I wanted a catheter, I chuckled and said I didn't really want the catheter but I knew was the best solution and that's what my urologist office had sent me over here for. But I told him that I would be a lot more comfortable if my wife, who was sitting next to me could put it in, instead of the nurse who was standing right there. To my amazement, he said I don't think there's a problem that I'm comfortable with her, as they had worked together many times in the past. The nurse went and got the supplies dropped them off in the room and they were like, we'll be back in 5. So my wife inserted my foley last night in the ER. now I have an "emergency" follow up with the urologist tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes........
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