Dan, They Have Locks my nurse provides them. They simply paste onto your inner leg. Kind of like a Band-Aid but it locks the tube in place so that nothing pulls it out. I can look up the brand name if you want. The worst that I have had happen is that -- one time I caught My Bed Bag on the side of my Van. It pulled the tube out of my catheter tube. But the lock -- made sure that the catheter did not pull out Gary
--- On Sun, 6/7/09, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Dan <[email protected]> Subject: [QUAD-L] Questions To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, June 7, 2009, 4:02 PM Speaking of potassium, do any of you have low potassium? I have to take 60meq a day in order to keep mine in the normal range. None of my doctors seem to know why?!? Do you guys have any ideas? On another note, at night, where and how do you hang your drainage bag? I've been laying mine on the bed by my feet but it doesn't drain very well that way especially when I raise the foot of the bed up. I've thought of hanging it on the side of the bed frame but it pulls quite a bit that way - I have a supra pubic. If I do hang it on the bed frame, should I put a loop in the tube? A CNA once told me that this helps the drainage?!?. And lastly, should I tie the tube to my thigh? I have this fear of the bag falling and pulling the cath out! TIA. Dan
