Um, so catheters aren’t very fun. For the unfamiliar, a catheter is when they insert a tube into your urethra to drain urine out of the bladder.
Here’s what happened. The mix of the physical trauma of surgery and all of the different medications was hindering my ability to pee. I was peeing some, but I wasn’t evacuating nearly as much fluid as I was taking in. This is common after surgery, but it can cause a lot of problems. To prevent those problems, hospitals use catheters to expel urine until the body wakes back up enough to do it on its own.
Having a catheter feels weird, but it doesn’t hurt. However, having a catheter inserted hurts like a bitch. You know how you can kind of imagine what some things might feel like? You can’t with is. It’s a mix of that wrong feeling you get when something is forcibly inserted into an out hole, but it also stings in a place where you’ve never felt feelings before. To put it nicely, it’s a very memorable experience.
Bingo! In fact, double Bingo!