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 <onemofor...@yahoo.com> 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 <curlyle...@verizon.net>* wrote: > > > From: DAVID LEWIS <curlyle...@verizon.net> > Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] anniversary.... > To: "t crook" <onemofor...@yahoo.com> > 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 <onemofor...@yahoo.com> > *To:* q-list <quad-list@eskimo.com> > *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 > > >
