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
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*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
