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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... I’ve 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 wasn’t as far down as I thought. I got one of the kits we have
been using and couldn’t 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!!!
