In a message dated 3/30/2007 3:03:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
. The doctor says that my > bladder is doing its job: when it fills to a certain point, it empties. > Now that is without any control from my head--or whatever. If I want > to wait, Forget it, cause it's doing its own thing. This is how my bladder works, so I had to self cath every three hours or get soaked to the max. I can't cath in my chair so had to be able to get to a bed or something where I could lie down. I thought I would be able to cath in my new chair but my legs won't stay in the right position since they were broken at the ankles last year. I am so disapointed that I will still have to go back to bed every three hours if the foley comes out. I don't know what to do. Every time I get diarreah I get another UTI. I cannot help it. I have to do my bowel program in bed, lying on my side with one leg up on a pillow crossing over the other one. Then I have to reach behind myself and put pads (chucks) down and begin to to the digital removal. When I get the big D, I can't change the chucks fast enough and stuff goes all over the place. I do my best to keep things sanitary, but have so much trouble. Does anyone have an idea for me to deal with this besides what I am doing? You have no idea how humbling it is to write this kind of email, but I have no one else to ask. What do people in my situation do? Complete TM, Lesion from T3-T8, no sensation, no movement from the underarms on down to my toes. My torso is affected as well as the upper portion of my shoulders, but not my arms. I can still lift them against gravity, but it is becoming more difficult as time goes on. Love, Jude ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
