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barry12345 · #31 03-02-2014, 09:05 PM

The 103 was pretty high for your age group. You where wise to go in.

Once in the hospital many, many years ago. The nurse took my temperature. Then she kind of got a strange expression on her face and said. This is a rectal thermometer.

Well I had watched her sterilize it so no really big deal. Still I would have been happier if she had used an oral thermometer in my rectum instead.

Hope things are a little better today Tom. It took ten days for all the symptoms I had to totally go from that rotten infection. After taking the prescription for about eight days the urologist did one on my bladder inspections. After that he examined the testicle and said this in not normal. I thought some equivelant of really no **** doc.. It is not a pleasant thought having the remaining infection concentrated so close to my brain.

Some things have reward points I suppose. The nice lady that spent twenty minutes manipulating my genitals with her hand for ultrasound examination followed shortly thereafter. Self control is much easier when one of your testicles may be on the line is a real possibility. I thought they would have to give me an extremely attractive single lady in an age group that might still be appropriate in different circumstances.

t walgamuth · #32 03-02-2014, 10:56 PM

Back when HMO's were popular there was a great joke about the difference in care from that and a Cadillac healthcare plan, involved the procuring of a sperm sample. The subject guy had the good plan and was assisted by a good looking nurse. The HMO guy was given some pictures and an empty room. I suppose I cannot really tell that one here can I?

barry12345 · #33 03-03-2014, 09:17 PM

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Back when HMO's were popular there was a great joke about the difference in care from that and a Cadillac healthcare plan, involved the procuring of a sperm sample. The subject guy had the good plan and was assisted by a good looking nurse. The HMO guy was given some pictures and an empty room. I suppose I cannot really tell that one here can I?

Now that is funny. No insurance coverage at all. Out in the parking lot with a collection bottle and all alone?

t walgamuth · #34 03-03-2014, 11:20 PM

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Now that is funny. No insurance coverage at all. Out in the parking lot with a collection bottle and all alone?

...just like I was when I had my first sex!

Today I learned about catheters.
1. Very high rates of infection.
2. aggressive fast progressing bacteria.
3. there are three types of catheter
a. The cheap kind I had (presumably)
b. Silver coated which resists the bacteria hosting.
c. A type I cannot remember the name of which does not irritate the uretha as much.

I'm asking for the silver coated next time!

barry12345 · #35 03-04-2014, 10:29 AM

I do not know if you are including the lovely one they used on me twice. There is a water in tube, water or urine out tube. and it is inflated once into the bladder somewhat on the end. I believe that is so it cannot come out until the balloon end is deflated. That means that perhaps there is a third line in that contraption.

I had a total urine blockage after an operation a month later. Healing scabs probably had separated from the bladder wall. The surgeon told them at the ER to install this particular type and the person tasked with this told me they did not know how to get something that large in. What they did not realise is it looks even larger from my perspective.

I suggested they try fundementally screwing it in after injecting a lubricant. It worked and the backed up fluids poured out providing instantainious relief. This model is used so they can irrigate the bladder and observe the amount of bleeding if any in the output flow.

My urologist is both extremely competent and a stickler for never releasing me until I can urinate like a fire hydrant after catheter removal. . Being familiar with this I suggest the staff bring at least several fluid containment vessels rather than have to bring me one after the other. Then I start to drink water in volume until I fill them all.

I have even considered doctoring the containers by adding some water but never have. It gets pretty tedious.

This is going to sound stupid. We may get the best of catheters. If it on average it reduces the complications. Our medical system seems to evaluate total costs. If by reducing the costs of dealing with infections is proven they may very well use them.

Universal health care is a strange animal. Also what the system pays for general supplies is not an open market. Or a situation of medical supplies will cost whatever the market will bear. This is one area of it that may conceivably be better for the patient. At the same time there will also be downsides.

For example my upcoming vascular surgery was delayed until later this month. It was thought to not be that urgent apparently. Originally they were going to do it in late January.

Going to be the installation of plastic between just below the renal arteries to the kidneys to both upper leg arteries. This done by insertion of the plastic up both those leg arteries. One side is a straight pipe with a branch.

They do the other side with a straight pipe and couple it up making it an inverted Y. Must be both a challenge and difficult working in arteries with blood flowing constantly in them. Maybe that's why they asked if I had any objection to getting blood if required.

I asked the booking lady and she told me about two and a half hours have been booked for the procedure. Booked a local hotel room there just in case the weather is severe on the day of release. I do not want my wife or any friend driving in bad conditions to pick me up.

The operation takes place forty miles away. Almost all the local family will be in Cuba at that time. They go every year lately. This drastically reduces pick up options. The hospitals are real sticklers in that regard.

The weather is pathetic from a temperature perspective still. In thirty five years here I have never seen such low temperatures this time of year. Last night was about -15 F. This is not unusual at the end of December or first week of January. Highly unusual this late though.

Must be because I want to have an escavator to do some digging before going to the hospital but the frost in the ground may stop it if these rotten temperatures persist. People on a mentally fixed heating cost per year really are taking a beating. Solid thirty percent higher so far this winter.

Heat pumps have ballooned in sales here lately. A young fellow asked me the other day if I thought it might be good to install them as extra income. I told him the sales will peak and fall off probably. Still they are here to stay in my opinion and will be subject to breakage and repair. So when they do so it might be okay. Another thing in your favour is many installers are not doing certain things properly. So there will be repair work created by them.

Personally I expect to also see a resurgence of the wood stove sales and usage. Natural gas and fuel oil have become too unpredictable now as to future cost. Currently they are bad enough. Straight electric baseboard heating if not impossible is very high as the hydro rates have jumped too much.

This winters cost increases where noticeable mind the usage volume increase. At least up here in eastern Canada. Wages are pretty stagnant for the average person with inflation at last starting to really move in as I thought it might. What I am having some difficulty with is why it was delayed longer than I expected. Almost all prices are on the rise now and many of my suppliers have told me new price increases are locking in shortly. About ten to twenty percent increases is what they are saying.

t walgamuth · #36 03-04-2014, 07:36 PM

I have a tightness in my chest and an urge to cough so I went to my GP. He decided I probably have the flue and perhaps not much of a urinary infection...WTF?

So I got an inhaler prescription and will have the stones blasted and sucked out tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!

barry12345 · #37 03-05-2014, 10:45 AM

Well Tom just keep your spirts up. This should all pass. Our wives get quite concerned over our general state from time to time it seems. They are fearful that we might survive I suppose.

One serious upside is that medicine can deal with many things today that they were totally unable to deal with not that long ago. Or are much less invasive overall to do so.

link · #38 03-05-2014, 10:57 AM

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I have a tightness in my chest and an urge to cough so I went to my GP. He decided I probably have the flue and perhaps not much of a urinary infection...WTF?

The tightness in my chest happens to me nearly every time i'm supposta see a doc.

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So I got an inhaler prescription and will have the stones blasted and sucked out tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!

I'd have thought that pain meds would be better for the blasting procedure, but what do i know. The good news is that even with less than ideal insurance coverage, lithotripsy is not currently a diy procedure

t walgamuth · #39 03-05-2014, 03:34 PM

I am home now. With the spinal block I was able to go from recovery to a room and had a hearty breakfast with no nausea. Three hours later I am home. I passed water the normal way. Everything went well.

barry12345 · #40 03-05-2014, 08:32 PM

I just request being put to sleep. Never had a spinal block but it was offered. Glad it went well Tom.

What do they do? Laser the stones to break them down? How long was the procedure roughly? Stones are primarily calcium I would imagine but do not know.

t walgamuth · #41 03-05-2014, 10:13 PM

He went in with a hand held device which resembles one of those little LP fired stove lighters. It contains a light, a camera, water, suction, and a lazer. He went in as soon as the spinal was administered. I felt nothing except a little tugging now and then. I was conscious and conversed with the drug doc. After a while I got restless and asked for a little more of the stuff that makes you not care and some pain killer for my aches and pains. It took one hour. Then I went to recovery where I stayed until there was hard evidence the block was beginning to wear off, then went to the room and had a great meal. As soon as I passed water they released me. I've done it about four times since and will once more before retiring.

Am having some sleepytime non cafine tea now with a dash of Jim Beam.

Cheers!

t walgamuth · #42 03-06-2014, 06:27 AM

I slept in my bed last night instead of the (torture rack) lazy boy. This morning I feel like a child in my freedom. No catheter, no bag, no pain, not much in the way of drugs. I woke up with an idea for reducing the prostate without using the traditional methods. I am now going to ask some questions and see if there is any possibility of attracting an actual surgeon to do it. (prolly not).

Anyway I feel great. I am off to the Y to swim!

Woo hoo!

macdoe · #43 03-06-2014, 12:05 PM

Thats good news, you have your life back...and some relief in many ways. My younger brother is going through similar circumstances. We are only a year and a half apart so we are close and we talk about his problems in this regard. I think he has a hard time explaining certain things with strangers in respect to his circumstances. I applaud you for your enlightened documentation of your experiences. Once again having learned some more from you older gents on here who have actually gone through this. Your experience has been valuable to me. Thank You for posting it.

barry12345 · #44 03-06-2014, 02:15 PM

I could not use this one liner earlier and still do only with some concern. Plus only when the issue was resolved. It is a little crude but descriptive.

I thought you would feel better once you got your rocks off Tom. Sorry I could not help it. The devil made me do it is my justification to satisfy some of our more religious members.
Plus it struck my bizzare at times sense of humor as funny.

For those that are curious having a scope inserted is usually absolutely without problems and discomfort. If you just consider focusing on something else in the room. Just fixating on it is all it takes. The attending nurses mammary glands and posterior were convienient for me. Us older guys change in most ways but not all. Perhaps just not as obvious about it.

Many uroligists may have never considered this to mention in their practice. Mine only asked how come it is absolutely nothing to experience for me. He chuckled when I filled him in.

Otherwise the apprehension and focus can make you tension the bladder muscle. A lot of younger guys will at some point undergo this examination later in life. So you should know.

I only wish someone had suggested this for the first time I was scoped. I thought he was going to push my posterior through the table before he got into the bladder. Or at least my body reflex tried really hard to stop it.

I have not kept count but must be at last twenty five times for scope insertion for me up till now. It is truly mind over matter. Adds truth to the expression if it does not matter you do not mind it at all. Many a young guy will forget this over the years but I am positive it makes a major difference and should not be totally forgotten.

t walgamuth · #45 03-06-2014, 02:27 PM

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Originally Posted by macdoe

Thats good news, you have your life back...and some relief in many ways. My younger brother is going through similar circumstances. We are only a year and a half apart so we are close and we talk about his problems in this regard. I think he has a hard time explaining certain things with strangers in respect to his circumstances. I applaud you for your enlightened documentation of your experiences. Once again having learned some more from you older gents on here who have actually gone through this. Your experience has been valuable to me. Thank You for posting it.

You're welcome and thanks for saying this.

It is typically the kind of thing we all figure we can worry about later. But its hard to get any information so I thought I'd share in case some others can benefit.