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Tip to caregivers after TURB/bladder biopsies
If your patient (who has a catheter) says to the nurse “Can I just walk to leave the hospital instead of you taking me down in a wheelchair? It hurts too much to sit down.” that might be a clue that the patient is not ready to leave the hospital.
Doug had his bladder, prostate, and kidneys biopsied on November 11 after a positive FISH test. The good news is that all biopsies were cancer free.
Anyway, after we were home and our daughter had picked up dinner for us, Doug ate standing up. Jennifer and I checked and it didn’t look like any urine was coming out of the catheter, so she insisted that we take him to the ER…which was the right answer! The male nurse who escorted us back to a room told us ” I am a penile magician!” Doug was more than happy to hear that!!! He irrigated the catheter which gave Doug immediate relief. We could see the little blood clots in the catheter. We were there 3 hours and things were better.
Anita
Anita
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Doug must thank his lucky stars every day!
He has you!
Wow ! What a team! And I want you on my team in the future if I have a need.
Light a man a fire and he is warm for an evening.
Light a man ON fire and he’s warm forever.08/08/08…RC neo bladder
09/09/09…New Hip
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Good to hear your story. I’ll be sure to be on the alert for symptons as my husband starts into all the different treatments. Glad he did better this time.
After Doug’s latest surgery, I told the nurse that we wouldn’t be leaving the hospital until he had urinated twice (to make sure he didn’t have the clot deal again). I think she thought I was crazy!!! But, who cares? She said “That could take hours.” I told her that Doug goes so often, it would not be long….and it wasn’t. :) No clots this time, but no catheter either.
Anita
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My husband had the procedure day before Thanksgiving and no one prewarned us either…he spent a brief time in ER due to extreme pain…which subsided in the Ambulance Thanksgiving evening…had problems all day Friday and ended up in serious condition in ER for hours as they were busy…he has a heart condition as well and I had to yell for help when he developed chest pains…they rushed in and immediately did syringe flushing and got a lot of clots out…10 hrs later we were home….he has been pretty good ever since…DON’T neglect abdominal pains after TURB…
Great info to share, Anita.
Good call on the ER, Jen. And Doug knows better than to argue with the two of you!
Best wishes… CatherineTURBT 1/21/10 at age 55
Dx: T2aN0M0 Primary Bladder Adenocarcinoma
Partial Cystectomy 2/25/10
Vanderbilt Medical Center
Nashville, TN
Glad things are going better. Ouch and good advise.
Cynthia Kinsella
T2 g3 CIS 8/04
Clinical Trial
Chemotherapy & Radiation 10/04-12/04
Chemotherapy 3/05-5/05
BCG 9/05-1-06
RC w/umbilical Indiana pouch 5/06
Left Nephrectomy 1/09
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