I haven’t quite mastered the techniques of leg bag placement yet
It’s quite a skill and I’m learning.
I’m finding mid thigh placement the best position after a near disasterous twanging of elasticated ties in Sainsbury’s car park yesterday had me scrambling down my tracki bottoms behind a collection of supermarket trolleys.
I cancelled this week’s counselling clients ( thankfully only two) not wanting a malfunction in the therapy room as I’ve already knocked open the bag’s tap by mistake and partially flooded the kitchen vinyl ( through which Roger Gayly walked)
All this is a big learning curve and I’m yet to build up sufficient confidence with each bit of equipment, even though I’ve been working with them neigh on thirty years.
The nhs system for replacement bags and other such doobies is efficient and impressive. My supplies will be delivered today and after I write this I will empty my leg bag again and take Roger out for a walk
My mind has floated back to the summer of 1992 when a selection of motley nurses and physios would regulary take a group of young men and women out from their rehab Spinal Wards to The Ledmill Nightclub.
Here we would get drunk as lords, and where the patients learned to dance in their wheelchairs as ABBA played and suddenly everyone felt young and free again after their traumas of injury.
Most of the patients would have catheter leg bags and part of rehab would be the secret emptying of said leg bags into empty beer pint glasses, in a dark corner. Many a Thursday night whole lines of warm lager coloured drinks would magically appear at the latter parts of the evening.
Of course nurses adored the irony of skint students grabbing one of the pints “ by accident”
Happy days
You've conjured up some yucky images there, John. Being on the receiving end of medical stuff is a completely different thing to dishing it out, but I'm glad you've maintained your sense of humour, although I expect there's been a few choice swear words over the past few days! A good idea to cancel your counselling clients until you feel confident. You wouldn't be able to give them your full attention if you were anticipating a catheter malfunction! xx
ReplyDeleteImpossible to fully appreciate the miracle of human plumbing until it has been disrupted. This is indeed a major life change. I am still confused- is a surgery or some other treatment a possibility? Of course it's none of my business but you know how this goes- we all feel as if in some way we are family.
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