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
