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Carelotsss Asked December 2022

Catheter help!

Dad was sent home 2 weeks ago with a catheter because he can’t pee after stroke and seizures in hospital. Last year same catheter situation but he was more cognitively aware and outpatient urologist said he has a distended bladder and he is always going to hold some. The urologist took it off and for nine months, I really don’t see him peeing in the day, but he was incontinent at night. We certainly don’t know what he is holding every day for 9 months? While in hospital he was holding every day and they have to do in and out, which he didn’t like, and he didn’t pee, so he finally put an indwelling catheter in and sent him home.


 


Now, he expressed why he has a catheter and he is going to trip and fall with it. I see him getting frustrated a few times this week wondering why he has to wear it. Still waiting for urologist follow up for this.


 


Everything is going well since discharge but this catheter is getting him frustrated cause he almost trip a few times stepping over it.


 


I don’t know what to do? He doesn’t seem to be aware that he was in hospital for 2 months unconscious. In his mind now, he is home so why is the catheter not taken out?

Catskie62 Dec 2022
I'm sure it's annoying for him. They have larger capacity leg bags and they can be attached mid thigh. I got them on Amazon. Medicare pays for 2 bags a month so ask the urologist for them. My mother went every month for a catheter change & they replaced & positioned a new bag.

JoAnn29 Dec 2022
Could he not get one of those poles on wheels where they hook IV bags to. I can't imagine dragging a bag around. The big bags my Dad used at night and when he was finally bed ridden. Yes the ankles are smaller but better empty all the time than Dad breaking a bone.

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funkygrandma59 Dec 2022
You'll want to get him the smaller catheter bags that straps on to his leg with Velcro.
When my husband had his supra pubic catheter put in he was given both the larger bags and the smaller ones to use when we went out in public to be able to hide it.
However at that time when we went out it was only to go to the doctor, so I found it just easier to use the big catheter bag, and since my husband walked with a hemi-walker, or I used his transport chair, I just hooked the bag onto his walker or transport chair and he never had an issue with it.
So if your dad uses a walker to get around just hook the catheter bag onto the side of his walker and he won't be tripping over it. Or get him the much smaller catheter bags(that have to be emptied a lot more than the big ones)that will wrap around his calf.
Good luck.
Carelotsss Dec 2022
The problem is he gets up by himself without walker or any help, which is good, but he drags the catheter bag. I can see those small ones are useful but then it needs to be emptied constantly and the whole business of getting to it. With the big bag I emptied at least 3x a day already.
Grandma1954 Dec 2022
How is he tripping on it?
Is it not secured to his leg? Or otherwise secured so that he does not become entangled in the tubing?
Carelotsss Dec 2022
No, the bag is on the floor you have to carry it. We do when we walk with him but he now gets up by himself and walk around the house. He doesn’t know to carry it but drags it. It’s not a small one that is attached to your leg.
NeedHelpWithMom Dec 2022
You have a frustrating situation here. I’m so sorry that you and your family are going through this.

Since he has been home, have you discussed his situation thoroughly with his doctor?

My dad hated having a catheter in also. He had a different situation though. He only had one in the hospital, not at home.

Stick around. Others will chime in and offer help.
Carelotsss Dec 2022
He is supposed to have follow ups, so far everyone called to schedule except urologist

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