Wednesday, September 2, 2020 – POSTED: Friday, September 4, 2020
I got up about 4 times last night. I kept getting up to pee. The first few times, I just changed the pad. The last time, I changed both pad and disposable underwear. I feel much more rested. I’ll try going back to sleep.
I feel like I have increasing bladder control. This should help improve bladder capacity and get me more time between bathroom trips. Still an uneven and irregular improvement.
My penis is fully retracted when I sit on the toilet. Like a turtle in it’s shell. I’m sure a lot of it is the trauma of surgery & the catheter. Each day it’s easier to avoid peeing all over my scrotum.
I’m sure once all the surgical trauma of new plumbing heals, will be more normal. BMs are getting easier as my abdomen is less tender.
I feel discomfort deep down where my prostate once was. I think that means the internal swelling is going down. My bladder feels like it’s pushing down when it’s full. I think those tissues are just sensitive.
Again, no real pain. Going from standing to sitting is getting easier each day.
Aging
Keanu Reeves is 25 days older than I. Man, I look old!
Healing Up
The back up IV site on my left hand still has a scab and is not sore. The main IV site on the back of my right hand lost its scab, but the back of my right hand is still sore to the touch.
The bruise on my right arm from blood draws was small and it gone. The bruise no my left arm from blood draws is huge, but is shrinking and changing color rapidly. The bruise on the one incision on my lower right abdomen is fading quite a bit. It might be gone by the weekend.
Except for the two sites that are weeping and I keep a clean, dry bandage on them, the other incisions have scabs and one scab is partially fallen off. I’d guess next week for the small scabs to fall off. The bigger ones might be a week after that.
My abdomen itches around all the incisions. The two weeping ones have more itching. I suspect that is due to the tape used to hold on the dry gauze. It is hypo-allergenic tape, but keeping the skin covered for days on end gets itchy. I’ve been rotating the placement of tape to avoid covering the same patch of skin with tape.
Nap Time
I’m running out of steam, so before I fall asleep in my desk chair, I’ll lay down for a nap.
No go, I did not sleep, but I rested.
Frustration
I keep leaking urine. Every time I cough, laugh, sneeze, or fart I leak. Burping does not cause that. I am getting more control, but it is still slow progress.
As I noted previously, my penis seems shorter, and I managed to pee all over my scrotum in the evening, like a spoon under a stream of water. Nothing I tried got the stream to go where I wanted. My scrotum seems doubled or more in size, making it a hard to miss target.
To The Rescue
I decided I wasn’t that hungry for supper, so I made a peanut butter sandwich. After I put the lid back on the jar and was lifting it back to the shelf it belongs, I just dropped it. After a few expletives, my granddaughter who is 5-1/2 and watching a movie on the couch, ran in like a shot, just as I was considering how to pick it up without hurting myself. She picked it up, I put it away, and I gave her the biggest one armed hug I could.
Bedtime
I ran out of steam about 10:30, but the Wednesday night game runs til 11:00. I toughed it out to finish the combat we were in, and then bowed out ten minutes early. I was out soon after my head hitting the pillow.
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