It's Sunday Morning and National Guard Fighters are doing fly bys over me every 3 minutes

[Wiley50]

See: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7014616

I slept well.60 mg of morphine and 10mg of valium tends to guarantee that. But I was up until 3 am trying to clean the silt out of the catheter in a very unorthodox way:

I cut off the straight part at the bottom of a wire coat hanger, washed it well with antibacterial dish soap, wiped it down with isopropal alcohol, let it air dry so it wouldn't burn, coated it with Bacitracin with pain relief, and fed it up through the valve at the bottom of the catheter bag all the way to the flared out part at the top of the bag where it becomes the tube ( getting it through the flap thingy was the hardest part) and stirred up the silt in the flared out part (which let a lot of urine through giving me a lot of relief. From there the tube was too narrow to go any farther as it was just packing the silt tighter into the tube so I stopped there. But, it really let a lot of urine and back pressure out and off. Then I took my bedtime pills and that was the last thing I remember. This morning there was only about an inch of urine in the bottom of te bag, but after a couple of cups of coffee it started filling and I felt well enough to bake a pear cobbler. It's in the oven (a toaster oven, this is a sailboat after all.)

I think I'll be able to survive until 8 tomorrow morning when I'll be at my primary care doctor's office when his office girls can find me a new urologist and hospital.

I have bearable pains every now and then but they go away in a few minutes. I swear, I've never rubbed myself down there so much and it didn't feel good.

Thanks for all the encouragement last night.