great topic. today is my 37th wedding anniversary broken neck b/4 marriage, and my visiting nurse is scheduled to chg my Foley. I feel like a numerologist making the date match a major event by juggling numbers. AZDAVE In a message dated 9/14/2010 12:57:55 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time, [email protected] writes:
About 20 years ago the VA in Tampa used to give a beer a day to the veteran SCI patients. Unfortunately they stopped in 1995, the year I was injured. I used to have one a day, but nowadays I can't really stomach beers too well anymore. On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 9:20 PM, t crook <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: I have been fortunate enough to have been voiding for almost 22 years; when the bladder fills I have bladder spasms and feel the urge to void. Back in ’88 they were teaching the tap and credae method; and it was not working for me, until I started drinking beer on home visits. After several tall cans of barley-pop; I felt this strange sensation, the flood gates opened and the urine process was so forceful it blew my condom cath clean off of me. When I returned to the hospital I told my rehab doc about the beer making me void on my own; and he prescribed me 3 beers a day (my rehab doc was a marathon running non-drinker), now I just have a couple of beers every other day. I have been cathed about 5 or 6 times in over 22 years (due to a full bowel and the few bladder infections I have had), I’ve only had about three or four bladder infections So I use a condom cath (Mentor Active Cath) it is attached an MDI (1000 cc) leg bag with four button and two straps. Tim --- On Sun, 8/8/10, DAVID LEWIS <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > wrote: From: DAVID LEWIS <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] anniversary.... To: "t crook" <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Date: Sunday, August 8, 2010, 9:20 AM may i ask yu, have u had a cathter all those years and whats your history with utis? Johnny ____________________________________ From: t crook <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > To: q-list <[email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) > Sent: Sat, August 7, 2010 10:25:38 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] anniversary.... I just realized today is the day I broke my neck; 22 yrs ago today, half of my life I have been paralyzed. Just glad to be alive and still kickin’; even if the kickin' is spasm induced…. Ha-ha! ~peace~ Tim c5-c6, 22 yrs. post _http://www.whoopiekat.com/CrocksCrib/index.htm_ (http://www.whoopiekat.com/CrocksCrib/index.htm)
