Pat...
I am so sorry to hear about your breast cancer. You are like a true Deputy...you are making the rounds.
You are definitely a Trouper!!!!
Well, the catheter is truly getting on his nerves this morning. He is not wanting to wait until Monday to take it out. I don't blame him. Aside from the urologist going away for the weekend and I ASSUME being concerned that my husband might not be capable of urinating after the cath is out when he is out of town, I also see no purpose for it to be there for 4 days post-op. It is an incredible irritant. I am thinking I will take it out for him, and if for some reason he can't go...I'll take him to the ER for a straight cath.
Today, I think I made the mistake of leaving the "staging print out" on the printer. Mu husband apparently read it and I think the REALITY of this finally registered. Maybe a good thing at this point, maybe not. He appears to suddenly be very depressed this morning. Up until now...it has been a bit frustrating for me, because I think his dialogue with the Doc has been more off the topic than on...simply because that is the way my husband initially deals with things. A coping mechanism...perhaps. I guess he just needed to digest all of this in increments.
I told him that the people who beat this stuff are the ones who follow the advice of those who have been through it, get in with top surgeons, and stay very pro-active with their diagnosis. We will do everything possible to beat it..because it is now a part of our lives.
In any event..Pat, I don't know how you handle it ALL, but I am surely GRATEFUL you and the others are here doing it.
Cher