Hi Richard, I do almost exactly what you do for your son except instead of running the tube inside my pants, up my leg, I run the tubing up and beside my chair, then connect the tubing to the catheter through a hole cut into the left pocket of all my pants. This works especially well with shorts. The tubing is covered with black cloth so it's virtually invisible unless you look for it.
Steve - C4, 24 years On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Richard Galli <[email protected]> wrote: > My solution for my quadriplegic son, beginning about 13 years ago, was not > to use a leg bag at all. I mounted a black utility bag so it hangs off the > front of his power chair base, behind his lower legs. We put a big 2000-ml > bedside drainage bag in that, and run the tube inside his pants, up his > leg. We cover the transparent tube with the kind of black flexible > wire-concealing wrap you can get at Radioshack. > > The tube connects at top to his Texas or Foley cath (depending) and the > tube is held in place by a white strap with velcro clamp. > > When the drainage bag gets near full, we just take it out, open the valve, > and either fill up a bottle or two, or hold it over a toilet and let it > drain. > > There is virtually no odor except when draining; it can go without > draining three or four times as long as a leg bag; and it is much easier to > manage in just about every way. > > Richard Galli > > >
