The joys of MS

Hello!

Good Tuesday to you.

Well let's give a hand for MS and its side effects!

- "Chuck, what's wrong?"

Guess at what time I went to sleep last night, this morning? Guess?

- "What time?"

Five! Five freaking o'clock in the morning!! There should be a pill that eliminates urine from your body.

This morning I was awoken by a pain in my pubic area, oh joy I said to myself, the freaking catheter isn't working. The catheter is the tube that has been inserted into my body to eliminate urine seeing that one of the side effects of MS is a dysfunctional bladder. So now what am I supposed to do? Well my wife has gotten enough sleep for one day so I'll wake her up. What can she do? Nothing really, but while I was on hold with the 24/7 emergency team I told her to remove the catheter see if anything was going to become out of my body, negative, I'll think I'll wait for the nurse to come online. After about 20 minutes I finally got a live person to talk to. She asked me the usual questions and then told me she was going to contact the nurse on call. Okay, will this person be calling me back I asked, she told me yes and that I had to set up the plan of action with him or her. Plan of action? Plan of action?! It's simple, just insert a new tube into me so that the urine can start flowing again.

The nurse called me, it was a guy, and asked me basic questions again, how long has it been since I noticed that the catheter wasn't working, what type of illness I have and if I had the material to change the catheter or did he had to bring some stuff. Bring some stuff! He confirmed that he would be here in 15 minutes, but to me it seemed like an eternity.

When the nurse came, he heard of the exploits that my wife had done, remove the catheter, he asked me why I had done this, that this is something that only a trained professional could do. I told him that I had no choice, that my pubic area was hurting too much so I decided to try anything I could. He then went on lecturing me about how dangerous this could have turned out to be, that the next time I should be patient and wait for the nurse from the response team to assist me. Okay, I promise, just stick that thing into me so that I can start peeing again!

And thus I went to sleep until about five o'clock in the morning and woke up at around 8 AM.

MS is fun kids, you just have to ride the wave!