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Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 10:47
PM
Subject: [QUAD-L] Progress
Well I want to share my progress in OT/PT.
I
got pants unbuttoned for the 1st time in 7+ years on Tuesday... boy was it
frustrating LOL... Ive been working on it with the tool they let me have... I
timed myself tonight so I could be aware of my body and when the urge to go
comes. It took 38 seconds on a bad try to get them unbuttoned. It takes around
18 to button them.
My mom made me a tool today to unzip pants. Well
tonight I got them unzipped. Considering these are new pants it was little
tough getting down all the way. I guess curiosity was working on me, so I
thought I would try getting the undies out of the way and peeking. The stoma
wasnt as far down as I thought. I got one of the kits we have been using and
couldnt even get the catheter out of the tip of the bag.
LOL
My mom got a cath and a bottle and said for me to give
it a whirl, she was going walkin! g. I sat there a second sizing up the task,
looks easy enough, so I put the end of the catheter into the bottle and moved
the undies down again. I got the tip of the catheter in with my right hand and
started pushing it in with left. Lo and behold it was going in!!!! It only
took 4 inches and BAM!!! I catheterized myself for the 1st time today!!!! That
was so much fun!!! Now comes the cleaning the catheter part. I will work that
tomorrow!!!
