TKR The Knees and Me - staged

[gertie]

@rubyyarn Ah, too bad! Getting a clean catch is tricky, even with a dixie cup, let alone a pill bottle! Thumb touches rim, rim touches butt, etc.

 

[rubyyarn]

Ah, @gertie, you are probably right. Pee runs over hand... It could easily happen. I'm just glad I don't have another knee or two to do

 

[SusieShoes]

I bet there are a lot of false UTI's. I ended up with one in the hospital, literally a couple days after surgery. I guess I got it there? Or maybe that was just their excuse for performing daily bladder-emptying ultrasounds for which they could charge. I'll never know. UTIs are easy to get... but hard to know where that little bacterium came from.

 

[gertie]

Oh, those bladder emptying ultras! 3 a.m. after you've struggled in pain to the bathroom and done your best peeing we're going to turn on bright lights and smear cold jelly on your belly.

 

[sandi4213]

I'm sorry, but take the antibiotic. Don't want to take any chances.

 

[rubyyarn]

Ultra-sounds to see if you peed? They never did that to me thank goodness. But I never had trouble peeing either.

And I'm taking the anti-biotic. No need to fuss over something that will do me no harm.

 

[Celle]

Ultra-sounds to see if you peed? They never did that to me thank goodness.

It sounds totally unnecessary to me.

 

[Fire wolf]

They asked me if I wanted one done given the fact that I wasn't peeing much initially. I politely declined and asked if they could just give me a chance to drink more. Because of my surgery being late in the day, it was a good long time since I drank anything!

 

[rubyyarn]

@Fire wolf, you'd think they'd take that into consideration. Hard to pee when you're dehydrated!

When I wake up from surgery, I drink water like it's going out of style

 

[sistersinhim]

When I have a UTI, I know I have a UTI. It's very uncomfortable and you feel like you have to pee all the time and it burns when you do. I don't understand how you can have one and not know it.

 

[rubyyarn]

@sistersinhim, seriously! I had so many of those things in my life, I know when I have one! I tried arguing the first time, but no go. The lab said UTI and that was that. If I want this surgery I have to go along.

 

[sistersinhim]

It's best to be safe. But, it sure does sounds suspect.

 

[Fire wolf]

Demand a recount!

 

[gertie]

Just wanted to clarify--I don't think the ultrasounds in my case were frivolous but were to see if I was emptying my bladder, which I wasn't and they were concerned about infection brewing if I had a significant amount of pee lingering--not sure why my bladder got sluggish in those first hours but it happened with each of my surgeries--just took a while to wake up in spite of IV fluids etc.

 

[Fire wolf]

@gertie I don't think it is frivolous, and I probably would have let them do one if I was still having issues the next day. They did tell me that their concern was that I wasn't emptying my bladder completely and didn't want things festering, just as you indicated.

 

[Pheebs52]

@rubyyarn, for all you know they might've mixed up your results with someone else's....it happens! Oh well, best to be safe.

Jelly-belly at 3 A.M.? Good grief. That makes me even happier I only spent one night in the hospital, lol.

 

[rubyyarn]

@Pheebs52, at least they didn't tell me about any prostate problems...

 

[Canada35]

Good luck on Tuesday. We will be waiting to hear from you on the other side! And your UTI ( if you have one) should be cleared by then with the antibiotics.

 

[rubyyarn]

Thanks, Pegi! I'll report when I get out of surgery, though it might be like...

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[Pheebs52]

@rubyyarn, you almost killed me with a coffee choke; thanks for that, lol!